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 user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local government equal to the current rental value of the land that he or she prevents others from using.

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo

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

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

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.