[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.