"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it."

~ Abraham Lincoln

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

~ Mark Twain

"Collecting data on the local economy from the internet is akin to drinking water from a fire hydrant."

~ Paul Zelus, Idaho State University