economics Quotes

Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family.

Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.