The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

With production alone as the goal industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line standardization for mass consumption.

For me growing up the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door through my dad.

One of the great challenges of our age in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

In my youth I stressed freedom and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

No one can avoid aging but aging productively is something else.