We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.