George Gilder Quotes - Page 3

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• In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.

  George Gilder

  Years, Ivy, League

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• Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.

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  Motivation, Community, Identity

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

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• Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

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  Machines, Economy, Inexorable

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.122, Regnery Publishing

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• 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 this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.

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  Government, Order, Top Down

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• The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

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  Facts, Moral, Manners

  George F. Gilder (1974). “Sexual suicide”

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• Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

  George Gilder

  Intelligent, Design, Doe

  "The Evolution of George Gilder". Interview with Joseph P. Kahn, archive.boston.com. July 27, 2005.

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• In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.

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  Smart, Dumb, World

  "Why we need 'stupid' networks" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2003.

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• This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

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  Men, Married, Young

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• 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, I was pushed to theories of disequilibrium and disorder, and information and noise, as the keys to understanding economic progress.

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  Order, Punishment, Keys

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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• 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, liberal and conservative, Austrian and Keynesian-both sides share an essential economic vision. They see their discipline as successful insofar as it eliminates surprise-insofar, that is, as the inexorable workings of the machine override the initiatives of the human actors.

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  School, Successful, Opposites

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• 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, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world." Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.

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  Real, Heart, School

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.4, Regnery Publishing

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• 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 have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.

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  Broken, Income, Matter

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• The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.

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  Retirement, Memories, Fall

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• 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 microscope to investigate the creative process behind every company and its price.

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  Order, Creative, Needs

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.35, Regnery Publishing

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• By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world’s most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.

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  Unique, People, Creative

  George Gilder, Joe Lieberman (2012). “The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Beseiged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy”, p.17, Encounter Books

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• The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

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  Capitalist Economy, Roles, Cash

  George F. Gilder (1981). “Wealth & Poverty”, Ics Press

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• Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

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  Three, Computer, Programming

  George Gilder (2000). “Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

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  Creating, Brutality, Wealth

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.139, Regnery Publishing

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• Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

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  Generosity, Giving, Moral

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.35, Regnery Publishing

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• 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 our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

  George Gilder

  Confused, Women, Movement

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

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• All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

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  Risk, Noise, Return

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• In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education

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  Enterprise, Company, Protagonists

  George Gilder (1985). “The Spirit of Enterprise”, Simon & Schuster

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• In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

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  Entrepreneur, Economic, Social

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