Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.

The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

Until he taught me to fl, I didn't realize how deep beneath the earth I'd buried my hopes and dreams.

Since the beginningnot one unusual thinghas ever happened.

Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.

There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment? They hate me.

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

The Moon Will Illuminate My Room And Soon Im Consumed By My Doom

Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come.

There are no nudists in cold areas.