All progress comes from the creative minority.

The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

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

[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.

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

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.