If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

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

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.