“The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.”

“If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.”

“If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?”

“The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.”

“A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.”

“Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.”

“Any idiot can put up a website.”

“Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”

“Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completel...”

“For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If...”

“It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, ...”

“As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with h...”

“If we start to think about trust as a public good (like clean air and water), we see that we can all benefit from higher levels of trust in terms of communicating with others, making financial tran...”

“It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.”