"The race to the moon was never really about the moon - its utility didn't rest in samples of moon rock. It was about capitalism versus communism, right versus left."

“Economists often talk about the benefits of choice, but rational economic man doesn't actually have much freedom to chose, because he is a slave to his own preferences.”

“To balance the economy, we need first to balance our priorities, and abandon rigid ideologies.”

“The economy is a nonlinear fractal system, where the smallest scales are linked to the largest, and the decisions of the central bank are affected by the gut instincts of the people on the street.”

“Advanced technology is great at tasks such as keeping an airliner flying several thousand feet in the air, but is easily crippled by social complications.”

“A society in which each person is hell bent on maximizing his or her own utility, may therefore have declining overall utility.”

“Perfect order is boring, perfect randomness is boring, but complex systems are interesting.”