Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
处理一个不自由的世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。
We must invest in people as much as we invest in technology - our workforce is our greatest asset.
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.