Courses Quotes by George Gilder

“It removes information from the market when I need more and more...Indexing is a waste heap--information so merged and muffled that it hides knowledge…

— George Gilder

“An economics of systems only-an economics of markets but not of men-is fatally flawed.”

— George Gilder

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

— George Gilder

Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to…

— George Gilder

“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies,…

— George Gilder

A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that…

— George Gilder

“The index is retrospective. The crucial alpha, the entropy, the signal modulating that linear advance...comes from knowledge of the entrepreneurial surprises harbored on the…

— George Gilder

In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but…

— George Gilder

The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The…

— George Gilder

Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place…

— George Gilder

“An economy is a "noosphere" (a mind-based system), and it can revive as quickly as minds and policies can change.”

— George Gilder

“Obviously the most enduring way to make this commitment is through marriage. Yet because sexual liberals deny the differences between the sexes, their explanations…

— George Gilder