Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. - Noam Chomsky

We should not forget Adam Smith’s perspicuous observation that the “masters of mankind” — in his day, the merchants and manufacturers of England — never cease to pursue their “vile maxim”: “All for ourselves, and nothing for other people.

Finally, I should like to call attention, once again, to the fact that various modifications and extensions of these functional notions are possible, and that it is important to find empirical motivation for such improvements.

(...) rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.