No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

Always make new mistakes.

The best investor is your customer.

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

When you're excited about what you do, and nobody gotta give you a dime, that's next level.

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.