The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.

The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. "The shark is gone.

There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.

Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.

Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples of separatism, and nothing has disintegrated, unless they went to war.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.