When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.
John Kenneth Galbraith[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.
John Kenneth GalbraithWhere humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe 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.
John Kenneth Galbraith