Best George Gilder Quotes
- Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge,… Actors
- At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it,… All
- Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more… All
- In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because… Central
- From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and punishments,… Adam
- The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science… Appreciate
- In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but a… Behind
- It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.… Built
- Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against… All
- Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern… All
- Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and… Beleaguered
- In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education Began
- Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects… Broken
- Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial… Appetite
- Intelligent design itself does not have any content. Any