Wealth not used is of no value at all.

but damaged machinery will continue to malfunction if its problems are neither diagnosed nor fixed.

Simple machines can be efficient, but complex adaptive machinery cannot be.

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

Where there is no property, there is no injury

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal.

Capital is but a form of labor, and its distinction from labor is in reality but a subdivision, just as the division of labor into skilled and unskilled would be.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby.

I bought every kind of machine that's known-
Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers,
Mills and rakes and ploughs and threshers-
And all of them stood in the rain and sun,
Getting rusted, warped and battered,
For I had no sheds to store them in,
And no use for most of them.
And toward the last, when I thought it over,
There by my window, growing clearer
About myself, as my pulse slowed down,
And looked at one of the mills I bought-
Which I didn't have the slightest need of,
As things turned out, and I never ran-
A fine machine, once brightly varnished,
And eager to do its work,
Now with its paint washed off-
I saw myself as a good machine
That Life had never used.

. As an architect I see it useless to go on further working for the mechanisms of
machinery for the machine lord and his lady (as they stand) with sane
hope for any sound general basis for any great future for the culture of our nation. Or for culture as of this world.

Speculation into thing already produced that is not business

The formula itself expresses that the money is not spent here as money, but is only advanced, and is thus simply the money form of capital, money capital. It further expresses the fact that it is the exchange-value, not the use-value, that is the decisive inherent purpose of the movement.