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.

[Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

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

Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.