Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries.

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up with much more of a zero sum type thing, where there's no progress and basically everybody's gain is somebody else's loss.

The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.

Great tech opportunities happen only once.