You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.