The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

Provocation is on the opposite lane of resolution.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.

When in doubt, use Caslon.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.