While infrastructure is of course important, it must be part of a bigger vision. The point is not to simply dig ditches but to steer those investments towards transformational growth.

We should be investing where the public returns are greatest - that is in innovation.

Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.

Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want.

Unfortunately, simplistic framing of problems leads to simplistic answers.

Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions.

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about outsiders, but have their roots much closer to home.

How can the truth make anything worse?

Man is by nature a civic animal.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your friend.

A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

Man, we’ve got something special. Don’t screw it up.