"[Over-regulation] is slowly killing the American economy. We are creating so much regulation – over tax policy, health care, financial activity – that smart people have figured out that they can get rich faster and more easily by manipulating rules on behalf of existing corporations than by creating net new activity and wealth. Gamesmanship pays better than entrepreneurship."
-Morris Panner

"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
-Clay Shirky

"Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money."
-Tim O'Reilly

"The brain expends only 2 percent of its energy on conscious activity, with the rest devoted largely to unconscious processing."
-New York Times, November 13, 2010

"You can't predict the future, but you can invent it."
-Dandridge Cole

"After some 2,500 years of both experience with and abstract thought about Western national economies, we know that a free, private sector increases the general wealth of a nation, while a statist redistributive state results in a general impoverishment of the population."
-Victor Davis Hanson