Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’

The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth.

Google makes so much money that it’s now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.

Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.