New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.