If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

Closing the door to toxicity is the most effective way to make space for new opportunity.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It's more of a revolution than a TV show.

Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.

Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.