Controlled Trial

Famous quotes containing the words controlled and/or trial:

    To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
    Heraclitus (c. 535 B.C.–c. 475 B.C.)

    You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.
    Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)