If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
The strictness of Russian laws is mitigated by the non-obligation to fulfill them.
The most dangerous phrase in business is: "We've always done it this way."