science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

Soaked in painmy suits remain standingwhen I take them off - hollow men beside the closet, a museum of days.

Truthfully, she was the best thing in his life and he was a complete idiot if he let her walk away from him.

When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.