Paul Samuelson Quotes

AI produces a lot more hay making finding the needle much more difficult.

No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help.

There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.

If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.

We're looking for people who are working on things that seem out of reach, uncomfortably difficult.

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.

At first glance, there's a lot of sex on the Internet. Or not at first glance: nobody can find anything on the Internet at first glance.

We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

Charge hell with a bucket of water.

Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

one could drown in irrelevance.

A giddy feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it - like running a dead-end maze - no way out - it couldn't come to a happy conclusion and yet I was doing it anyway because it was all I could think of to do.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.