The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of technical innovation (which I concede, although everyone emphasizes it too much), and much more - including, of course, the rate of inflation.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.