There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

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.

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

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.

It is not important how many competitions you have attended, it only matters how many you have won.

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.

I can't stand making records.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.