There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

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

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

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.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.