Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response

He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.

Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old.

...every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

I have said countless times that unless you are delivering a product and service that is really needed and unless you are doing it really well, you don't stick around for 80 years.

See yourself in the practice you are not able to access right now. Imagine yourself in it.

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.

Wisdom is vindicated by all her children.

The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.