The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.

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.

If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.

Tell me, who is behind a great woman? That's right. No one. She has to get there herself.

I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.

Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye.

I don't want to run around with new people. I feel safer with my friends.

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.