价格之重要,并不在于金钱是至高无上的。在零星分散的信息必须得以协调的巨型社会中,价格乃是快速而有效的信息传导。
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
在谷物贸易中,透明度建立的信任比任何一次收获都更持久。
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
"I’ve practiced so much that I don’t need to think before I play. It’s like driving a car—you don’t think about which pedals to push."
历史的终结将是一个非常悲伤的时刻。为了纯粹抽象的目标而愿意冒生命危险的斗争,全球意识形态斗争所唤起的勇敢、勇气、想象力和理想主义,将被经济计算、无休止的技术问题解决、环境关注和复杂消费者需求的满足所取代。