Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very impressive for quite a long while.

We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.