Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.

Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.