The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.

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.

Tough time don't lasts-Tough People DO

Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do.

Once upon a time, is how stories begin...

Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

I'm probably one of my three biggest fans on the planet.

The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.

Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree They're all growing green in the old countrie.