"Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy."

-- Esther Dyson

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“Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?”
“I'm not at all a linear thinker. I know the feeling I want to convey, but the form is what I struggle to find. I'm sure I'd fail if I tried to write a grant proposal or a book proposal.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.”
“The one important distinction between the two factors of production is that in a free society, ownership of the human factor, labor, cannot be concentrated while ownership of the non-human factor, capital, can be.”
“Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.”
“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right”
“If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, itd be a fun world, wouldnt it?”
“The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.”

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