A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

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

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