Veterans of war live forever with the memory of war's merciless nature, of the awful things that had to be done by their hand.

FORBES: Other Comments

Rosie picked me up and brought me back home because that was the morning our cows were butchered and your Dad had to be there to make sure things were done right.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Good Soldiers'

It's the period needed for a generation to cease hearing about the way things used to be done from great-grandparents, who had heard about such things from their own great-grandparents.

ECONOMIST: Will reading and writing remain important?

But in later work he also showed that organising matters within companies had costs: in particular, it relied on internal authority to get things done, and this could be abused.

ECONOMIST: The Nobel prize for economics