Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

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

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.