The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

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.

A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able to fail. If you have guaranteed experiments, you have zero knowledge

In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.