The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.

If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has ended tonight. One of us has simply gone ahead as we always knew it would have to be.

Don't breathe to survive

Ambition strives. At first for goals, until it reaches them. Then for more, because it's insatiable.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Nobody can hear you read music.

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

Man needs two important things: Firstly, to know the truths; secondly, to change them if they are not ideal!

I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.