"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."
-General George Patton

"Congress isn't much good at helping new technologies along anyway, and it may well be that in these overregulated times technologies need to be fast, nimble, and below the radar to flourish. In the 21st Century, at least, Congress's biggest contribution to promoting the progress of science and the useful arts may sometimes be to overlook them until they've become a reality."
-Glenn Reynolds

"the profit motive governed by consumers in an open competitive economy was more truly democratic -- and wholesome -- than the vote motive operating in a regime of so-called representative government dominated by pressure groups."
-attributed to Arthur Seldon

"Ultimately, the nature of our identity is going to change. When you get a new computer, you don't throw all of the files away. The software has a longevity that transcends the hardware. ... The hardware can die, but the software lives on."
-Ray Kurzweil