I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.