It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.