A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.