There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

- Robert Solow

Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.

- Robert Solow

The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for jus…

- Robert Solow

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

- Robert Solow

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

- Robert Solow

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

- Robert Solow

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in th…

- Robert Solow

The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.

- Robert Solow

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

- Robert Solow