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.

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.

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.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

Everything that happens in your life is beautiful. Find yourself in the appreciation of life.

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame to maintain this ecstasy is success in life.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

Ben Affleck inspired me and reignited my love for acting and filmmaking. It was a big part of getting me to a place where I felt inspired to make my own movie.

Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer to the reality.

When we look at the sky, we see two things: The beauty of the space and the future of the humanity!

The more you know, the less you have to carry. The less you know, the more you have to carry.

The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.