George Gilder

“The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter.”

“Information is the opposite of entropy.”

“All information is surprise.”

“The fatal conceit of the intellectual is that he knows what is best for everyone.”

“The only dependable wealth is what is in your head.”

“The returns to entrepreneurship are concentrated, but the benefits of it are diffused.”

“The most important event in the world, the most important since the death and resurrection of Christ, is the invention of the microchip.”

“The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money.”

“Egalitarianism, in every form, is a fatal foe of progress.”

“Creativity is the foundation of wealth.”

“Poverty is not a state of income. It is a state of mind.”

“Intelligent design itself does not have any content.”

“Capitalism begins with giving.”

“Wealth is not a pizza, to be shared out, but a frontier, to be explored.”

“A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.”

“The first principle of supply-side economics is that the creation of wealth is a moral act.”

“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.”

“The crucial role of the capitalist is to invest, to risk his money on a project that has an uncertain future.”