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

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

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

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.