In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.

Half Europe thought... that with the Pope the Papacy was dead.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.

A dark hour makes Jesus bright.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.