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

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.

Not mass production but production by the masses.

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.