The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate.

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

Nothing safe is worth the drive.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

Like [George] Best, there is a special fantasia about him

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves.

I want to keep playing at the kind of level where I'll get respect from everybody.

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.