Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas . . . Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.

- Paul Romer

Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the fac…

- Paul Romer

Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it…

- Paul Romer

Possibilities don't add up, they multiply.

- Paul Romer

Growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking.

- Paul Romer

Never waste a crisis.

- Paul Romer

I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are good, the one b…

- Paul Romer

In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken…

- Paul Romer