"Economists are like computers. They need to have……" — Kenneth E. Boulding

"Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them."

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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25 Quotes by Kenneth E. Boulding

Kenneth E. Boulding has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment…
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians.…
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human…
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and…
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an…
... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use…
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of…
With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.
The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship,…

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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely… — Isaac Asimov
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim… — Isaac Asimov
A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they… — Dave Attell
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it… — Norman Ralph Augustine
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. — Sebastian Bach
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. — Erykah Badu
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those… — Russell Baker
It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered… — Russell Baker
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going… — J. G. Ballard
The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot. — Dave Barry

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