If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

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

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.

Hope does not always require probability.

Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.