People feel better because Donald Trump says all kinds of things no one else would say and we get certain tendencies out of our system. So if attacking immigrants, say, is a substitute for doing something worse, there's at least a scenario under which that's a better alternative than something else that might have happened.

My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.

Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

People feel better because Donald Trump says all kinds of things no one else would say and we get certain tendencies out of our system. So if attacking immigrants, say, is a substitute for doing something worse, there's at least a scenario under which that's a better alternative than something else that might have happened.

I'm not optimistic about reform in many, if any, policy areas at all. I think we'll make further progress by inventing new things that aren't much regulated yet and outracing bad policy. I look at so many policy areas - regulation, regulatory reform, health care reform - it's all failing, we're not making improvements, we're going backwards.

The hours from 7 to 12 are your time to build for the future before the world descends on you.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.