One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge.

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

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

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.