As a result of that, and as a result of friendship, I don't think we've ever been competitive. I mean, there's probably a very good reason Hunter [S. Thompson] isn't jealous of me.

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

I started reading Hunter S. Thompson when I was in college.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.