Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

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.

People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.

I guess the truth is nobody told this smart kid that communication between such divergent life forms was impossible, so he just went ahead and did it anyhow.

Take responsibility to compel your nation to adopt kingdom lifestyle

In justice is all virtues found in sum.

Recognize, you ARE Home. Not, you are 'at home'... you ARE Home. Not, you have 'come home'... you ARE Home. You are that which IS Home.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Without money nothing gets done.

Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.