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

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.

Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena.

Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.