"The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop."

“...the vital point to remember is that the swine who just sent your pearl of a story back with nothing but a coffee-stain and a printed rejection slip can be wrong. You cannot take it for granted that he is wrong, but you have an all-important margin of hope that might be enough to keep you going.”

“Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty...but it rocks like crazy!”

“Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 11, 2012

“Always think in terms of what the other person wants.”

Source : James K. Van Fleet (1973). “Power with People”, Prentice Hall

“Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.”

“Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.”

Source : "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 43), 1766.

“When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.”

“1. 0 is a number. 2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number. 3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number. 4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor. 5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number that also has that property belongs to all numbers.”

Source : "Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science" by Peter Atkins, Ch. 10, (p. 333), 2003.