In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

Information is bad for knowledge.