We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
“The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.”
“That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.”