If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Source: In Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992.
-- Benjamin Franklin, (Jan 17 1706-1790), US statesman, diplomat, inventor, printer; He published Poor Richard's Almanac, 1732-57 ; invented bifocal glasses and the lightning rod.