Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper. — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper. — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun. — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics. — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
