The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.

I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality --> immortal mistakes.

Dyson's Law: Do ask; don't lie.

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

We had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would have things manufactured in China, but we would do the design, we would do the creative stuff.And now what we have done is, we have forgotten that that's what we wanted, and we're making the intellectual stuff more and more free. And, so, we're sort of left with less and less.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.