Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

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

From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

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

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.