Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.

We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises." So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect, and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.

As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.

The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.

The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.