No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.