I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.
But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.
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.
If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
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
Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my papers.
Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.
The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain
Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my life, but I certainly don't want to be a housewife right now. And I really don't want to be married to someone who gives me ultimatums. And maybe Joe needs to examine what he wants from a wife. He was raised in a traditional Italian household with a stay-at-home mother and domineering father. If he wants a wife who will fit into that mold, I'm not for him. I might be a stay-at-home mother someday, but I'll always be trying to fly off the garage roof. That's just who I am.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.