When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

The Korean government is the first to declare that if you replace people with machines you have to pay a tax. It's a tax on robots. They make private companies internalise the social cost of unemployment. Social benefit is not the same as private benefit. We have to realise this.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.