I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

The more you've got, the shorter it feels.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?