Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.

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

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.