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

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.