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.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.

[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.

I do the best with what exists.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

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.