economics Quotes

No one has ever become poor by giving.

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.