Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker. American writer and satirist (1925–2019)
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.