Andrei Codrescu, on the crash of 1987: The wise men of the market tell us that its main drive is greed. They tell us that everything is all right, that the fear it now reveals is only temporary, that greed will return soon. Oh, greed, we miss you terribly!
From 2004, David Crosby: It is partly their own, you know, greed and, and lack of taste, but it's also partly a condition that's endemic in the country.
From 2005, about "thefacebook": A successful company needs to have a "clearly articulated product and service," that will "save time or money, offer something someone can't find somewhere else and fulfill a greed or lust factor." The service offered should be "compelling," and one which "draws in new users to get organic grass-roots growth."
From 2007, Alix Goldsmith: "It’s greed, greed and more greed -- I mean, what’s more important to us, the environment or some stupid golf?"
From 2007, Snow Barlow: "Here we are, just one species on the earth, and we're grabbing a quarter of the renewable resources ... we're probably being a bit greedy."
From 2007, Faithless: Greed is a weapon of mass destruction
From 2008, Donald MacKenzie: The crisis isn’t just about the bursting of the US housing bubble and dodgy sub-prime lending. Nor is it merely a reflection of the perennial cycle in which greed trumps fear to create a euphoric disregard of risk, only for fear to reassert itself as the risk becomes too great. What is revealed by the end-of-the-world trade is that the current crisis concerns the collapse of public fact.
From 2008, Joseph Stiglitz: We have learned a painful lesson, both in the 1930s and today: The invisible hand often seems invisible because it's not there. At best, it's more than a little palsied. At worst, the pursuit of self-interest -- corporate greed -- can lead to the kind of predicament confronting the country today.
The Price of Dreams | 
