“People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.

If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.

Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.

For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.

Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

Don’t let complexity stop you.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.