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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.

Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

Enjoy yourself whilst you read!

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

Light and liberty go together.