To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.

Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

Come dance with me, " he says, taking my hand, and someday I'll explain to him that I already am.

Money never goes out of fashion.

Welcome to the Information Jungle.

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."

Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.