Leontief Quotes

#1. The human worker will go the way of the horse.

Wassily Leontief

#2. Au contraire..."
"What?" Constance demanded.
Curtain blinked.
~ The Perilous Journey

Trenton Lee Stewart

#3. The transformation which occurs in the cauldron is quintessential and wondrous, subtle and delicate. The mouth cannot express it in words.

Michael Pollan

#4. The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

Idries Shah

#5. Dark rumblings inside told him he was in a tremendous amount of trouble. He didn't know how it was going to manifest or when but it was coming, sure as Zeta would break the horizon before everyone else arose from their sleepzone. If they hauled him away, then what?

Marcha A. Fox

#6. He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.

Mary Renault

#7. In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world.

Justin Rosenstein

#8. Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Mark Twain

#9. Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.

Alan Coren

#10. Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.

Wassily Leontief

#11. The destination of love in two hearts joining love marries the two the instance they fall in love

Bradley Ellis

#12. We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

Wassily Leontief