Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

Would it be better to feel afraid all the time or to feel nothing at all? She hadn't decided yet.

I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.

the rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries.

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

I kiss people with my soul. I don't kiss them with my mouth.

A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept.

Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey