Paul Krugman

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.