In the post-war period higher education played a modest role in innovation. Businesses had more responsibility for achieving scientific breakthroughs: in America during the 1950s they spent four times as much on research as universities.
~ via The Economist
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Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
~ Mark Twain
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What’s the return on investment of college? What’s the return on investment of having children, spending time with friends, listening to music, reading a book? The things that are most worth doing are worth doing for their own sake.
~ William Deresiewicz
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I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard University.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Before we can try to remold society intelligently, we must understand its functioning; we must realise that, even when we believe that we understand it, we may be mistaken.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk
– we can talk about it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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Economics is not an exact science.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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