My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.