Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
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Deepak Chopra
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Fran Lebowitz
I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.
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Michael Grant
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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Richard Feynman
What comes, is called.
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Ki Longfellow
More Quotes By John Maynard Keynes
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began...
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
