These two quotes are from a new site I am linking to, the Economics Journal Watch:
I have been increasingly moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists...should cover their faces or burst into laughter when they met on the street.
Frank H. Knight - former University of Chicago economics professor.
Also,
[Being editor of the AER] (American Economics Review - TMW) turned out to be shattering. What was remarkable was the absolute dullness, the lack of any kind of new idea, that predominated in the selection of the papers I got.
Robert W. Clower - UCLA economics professor emeritus.