Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Until we realize that we are the children of the Almighty God and start acting like His representatives on the earth, nothing will change in our country

You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.

High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.