Tyler Cowen famous quotes

03-28-2025

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Creative #Trying #Demand
Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Excellence #Originality #Recognition
apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...
-- Tyler Cowen

#Technology #Space #Cartoon
The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Information #Return #Just Being
To get a person's real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes... If people truly hold a particular belief, they are more likely to think that others agree or have had similar experiences. [People] tend to assume that other people have had life histories at least somewhat similar to their own. When we talk about other people, we are often talking about ourselves, whether we know it ourselves.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Real #Believe #Thinking
Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Art #Believe #Book
Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Real #Ideas #Diversity
In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Important #World #Breakfast
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Selfishness #Defense #Libertarian
We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.
-- Tyler Cowen

#People #Needs #Principles
Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe...
-- Tyler Cowen

#Art #Believe #Important
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Rooms #Visitors #Proust
For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Artist #Self #Expression
The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Fire #Flavor #World
The right wing will be identified with the monied class, even when the left often has more money. And the left wing will be identified as the whiners, even though the right at times whines as much or more. You might say that both sides are monied, high human capital whiners, on the whole.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Class #Wings #Might
Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Home #Government #Doors
My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what itâ€™s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Views #Done #Way
The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the skills of the computer, or is the computer doing better without you? Worst of all, are you competing against the computer?
-- Tyler Cowen

#Intelligent #Skills #Keys
Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Book #Years #Giving
Understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Decision #Understanding #Helping
Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Art #Self #Imperfection
Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Art #Book #Museums
What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small l but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. Thats more or less the empty set.
-- Tyler Cowen

#Winning #Libertarian #Conservative

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