“Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .”

And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.

The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.

I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.

I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

It’s been a wonderful career, I couldn’t ask for anything more.

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories.

Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions…that get us to the right answer.

If I only had the chance, I’d ask one to dance, and I’d be dancing with myself.

The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

Ask not what fun does for you. Ask rather what you do for fun.

Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.

Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.