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> [I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/i-remember-once-reading-that-it-is-still-not-understood-how-the/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

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> [The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/the-user-of-land-should-not-be-allowed-to-acquire-rights-of/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

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## Other authors on Adequate

## More by Robert Solow

> [Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/everything-reminds-milton-friedman-of-the-money-supply-well/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/i-remember-once-reading-that-it-is-still-not-understood-how-the/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/everything-reminds-milton-of-the-money-supply-well-everything-reminds/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/but-part-of-the-job-of-economics-is-weeding-out-errors-that-is-much/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/suppose-someone-sits-down-where-you-are-sitting-right-now-and/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/you-can-see-the-computer-age-everywhere-but-in-the-productivity/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/why-does-a-public-discussion-of-economic-policy-so-often-show-the/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/the-user-of-land-should-not-be-allowed-to-acquire-rights-of/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/if-god-had-meant-there-to-be-more-than-two-factors-of-production-he/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/the-fact-that-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-perfect-anti-sepsis-does/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/it-is-a-good-idea-to-be-ambitious-to-have-goals-to-want-to-be-good-at/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/there-is-not-some-glorious-theoretical-synthesis-of-capitalism-that/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/the-world-can-in-effect-get-along-without-natural-resources-so/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my papers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/everything-reminds-milton-friedman-of-the-money-supply-everything/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

> [Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-solow/computers-show-up-everywhere-except-the-growth-statistics/)

[Robert Solow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-solow/)

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