The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

Dragons have wild hearts that need the open sky

for the first time in an age, he saw the beauty of the stars, rather than the darkness between them.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.

The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.

You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.