By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength.

Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative