George Gilder
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“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.”
― George Gilder
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“Today, on a per capita basis, Israel far leads the world in research and technological creativity.”
― George Gilder
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“The most precious resource in the world economy is human genius.”
― George Gilder
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“In the Google era, Newton’s system of the world—one universe, one money, one God—is now in eclipse. His unitary foundation of irreversible physics and his irrefragable golden money have given way to infinite parallel universes and multiple paper moneys manipulated by fiat. Money, like the cosmos, has become relativistic and reversible at will.”
― George Gilder
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“Money is not a magic wand but a measuring stick, not wealth but a gauge of it.”
― George Gilder
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"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. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side."
― George Gilder
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"All progress comes from the creative minority."
― George Gilder