As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.
The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled 'genetically engineered', the public will shy away and won't take them.
White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head.
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.
Peter Joshua: How about making me vice president in charge of cheering you up?
Reggie Lampert: Could I have one of those? Peter Joshua: One of what? Reggie Lampert: I think Tex did it.
