One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

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

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

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.