On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.