Steven Landsburg Quotes

#1. Selling is a painful necessity, buying is what makes it all worthwhile.

Steven E. Landsburg

#2. Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.

Steven Landsburg

#3. When the mind is creating troubles, it's time to come back to the body and the serenity of the present moment.

Dan Millman

#4. The chili-rubbed rib-eye at Porter House New York is one of the best steaks that I've eaten anywhere in the world.

Martin Bashir

#5. If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

Minoru Yamasaki

#6. Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent.

Steven Landsburg

#7. It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome.

Steven Landsburg

#8. Given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution ...

Steven E. Landsburg

#9. A few lines of reasoning can change the way we see the world.

Steven E. Landsburg

#10. Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other, and colleges should not pretend otherwise.

Steven E. Landsburg

#11. A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking about the other.

Steven Landsburg

#12. If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will just have you instead of someone else.

Steven E. Landsburg

#13. Dating's all about giving you chances to bump and brush and touch and, occasionally, talk.

Patricia McLinn

#14. [Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries

Steven E. Landsburg

#15. My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned me to look beyond man-made boundaries and prejudices. One does not have to undertake a space flight to come by this feeling.

Rakesh Sharma