Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.