It's quintessentially American to transform your family.

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.

Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.

Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.