We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and human reason. If it is to be measured by a strict standard of holiness, by religious normativity alone, then there can never be a moral capitalism.