People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.
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 SimonNot understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth.
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 SimonThe world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
Julian SimonPeople call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.
Julian Simon