Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.