GEORGE GILDER

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

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

If experts were usually right, socialism would prevail.

The key to the moral superiority of capitalism is that people get rich by imaginatively serving the needs of others.

Throughout history, the chief arbiter of the influence of nations and cultures has been war.

Police states cannot endure under the advance of the computer because it increases the power of the people far faster than the powers of surveillance.

The force of microelectronics will blow apart all of the monopolies, hierarchies, pyramids and power grids of established industrial society.

The more education and the better credentials women have, the more freedom they have to choose the extent to which they will work outside their homes.

Many of the statistics that have been cited in the stories of sexual revolution are reflections instead of the Industrial Revolution. The entrance of women into the work force has accompanied, at a slower pace, their departure from farms. As recently as eighty years ago 36 percent of American families were engaged in agriculture; today fewer than three percent are. This shift is truly a revolution, and it has transformed the official labor statistics for women. Although these statistics show women entering the work force in record numbers, the fact is that women have always worked. Their labor on farms, however—in an array of arduous jobs beyond the hearth and cribside—;was never monitored by statisticians.

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

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

Capitalism begins with giving.

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.

But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

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.

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.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.