Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.