Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.