"Why aren't there hordes of economists studying meaningful alternatives to market capitalism? Because we've been experimenting with various other systems--both localism and extreme centralization--for over a century, and the experiment produces the same damn result every single time: human lives that are nasty, brutish, and short. . . ."
-Megan McArdle

"I don't share the beautiful people's revulsion for suburbia. It's just decent people making a living for themselves, and maybe having a patch of grass to play touch football on. Many people do hate suburbia, the whole idea of it, and wish we were all living in concrete urban human dovecotes, where they can keep their eye on us."
-Sippican Cottage

"The idea that there is some kind of clean, different, painless, perfect alternative to politics as usual is a distraction from taking difficult, compromised decisions in an imperfect world."
-John Rentoul

"Success depends on how you react to unexpected opportunities."
-Ross Perot

"Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God ... I could be eating a slow learner."
-Lynda Montgomery

"If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four
sharpening the axe."
-Abraham Lincoln

"An American is a man with two arms and four wheels."
-A Chinese child