All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.
Julian SimonProgress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven. . . . My message certainly is not one of complacency. In this I agree with the doomsayers: our world needs the best efforts of all humanity to improve our lot.
Julian SimonAdding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the worldโs progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is peopleโespecially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with libertyโwho will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.
Julian SimonWe now have in our handsโreally, in our librariesโthe technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years.
Julian Simon