Alan Guth (1947) American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
as quoted by [Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, 1988, 0-553-34614-8, 129]
“There's no such thing as a free lunch.”
Also often misattributed to Robert A. Heinlein because both helped popularize the expression – Friedman with a book with that title. The phrase actually dates to at least the 1930s.
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John Allen Paulos (1945) American mathematician
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 5, “Statistics, Trade-Offs, and Society” (p. 147)
“The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.”
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) American journalist
2010s, 2013, Obamacare laid bare (2013)
Alan Guth (1947) American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
Alan Guth and Paul Steinhardt, The inflationary universe, edited by [Paul Davies, The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 0-521-43831-4, 54]
Paul Ormerod book The Death of Economics
Part II, Chapter 6, Unemployment and Inflation, p. 137
The Death of Economics (1994)
“Take an Indian home to lunch.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
When asked how the USA should celebrate the Bicentennial, as quoted in Avant Garde magazine (March 1968)