A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

Then arises the third and inexorable question: If Civilisation has increased the producing power of the average man, why has it not bettered the lot of the average man? There can be one answer only – MISMANAGEMENT.

In face of the facts that modern man lives more wretchedly than the cave-man, and that his producing power is a thousand times greater than that of the cave-man, no other conclusion is possible than that the capitalist class has mismanaged, that you have mismanaged, my masters, that you have criminally and selfishly mismanaged.

We’re producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I’m interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making

Fact. Of course, she always went and spoiled the appeal by opening her mouth. In his humble experience, the world had yet to produce a more vexingly verbose female.

I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays

When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process.

The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.

In an age of artificial intelligence, too many of our schools and colleges are producing artificial stupidity

Long Island for me, it’s producing more chefs coming out of there than Paris.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.