“I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.”

Source: Steve Jobs

Source: 1940s, The theory of the firm in the last ten Years, 1942, p. 800 cited in: P. Lloyd (2012) "The Discovery of the Isoquant - History of Political Economy"

[NewsBank, Nurturing the inventor in your child, Southwest Times Record, Fort Smith, Arkansas, August 25, 2000, Pam Cloud Smith]

On the Agriculture of England (1840)
Context: Is it practicable, on the soil and in the climate of Massachusetts, to pursue a succession of crops? I cannot question it; and I have entire confidence in the improvements to our husbandry, and the other great advantages, which would accrue from judicious rotation of products. The capacities of the soil of Massachusetts are undoubted. One hundred bushels of corn to an acre have been repeatedly produced, and other crops in like abundance. But this will not effect the proper ends of a judicious and profitable agriculture, unless we can so manage our husbandry that, by a judicious and proper succession of the crops, land will not only be restored after an exhausting crop, but gradually enriched by cultivation.

Source: Management and technology, Problems of Progress Industry, 1958, p. 23

Source: Art on the Edge, (1975), p. 231, "Shall These Bones Live?: Art Movement Ghosts"

Source: Karaoke Capitalism, 2005, p. 224

Source: Karaoke Capitalism, 2005, p. 224