Robert Solow

Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.

— Robert Solow

I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the…

— Robert Solow

Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.

— Robert Solow

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

— Robert Solow

Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing…

— Robert Solow

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

— Robert Solow

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

— Robert Solow

The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue…

— Robert Solow

If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to…

— 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…

— Robert Solow

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it…

— Robert Solow

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to…

— Robert Solow

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

— Robert Solow

Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my…

— Robert Solow

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

— Robert Solow