Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.