Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.