“In the ever-expanding universe of Pentagon contracting, cost is never the problem, public exposure is.”

“You are the ever-expanding universe to me”

“As government expands, liberty contracts.”

“The fundamental idea of transaction costs is that they consist of the cost of arranging a contract ex ante and monitoring and enforcing it ex post, as opposed to production costs, which are the costs of executing a contract.”

“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”

“This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract.”

“If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?”

“The universe would have expanded in a smooth way from a single point. As it expanded, it would have borrowed energy from the gravitational field, to create matter. As any economist could have predicted, the result of all that borrowing, was inflation. The universe expanded and borrowed at an ever-increasing rate. Fortunately, the debt of gravitational energy will not have to be repaid until the end of the universe.”

“Some more of Monty's boys came up, soon after Malone had left but they, too, spent their time getting shelled by the ever-persistent Germans. Likewise, they departed, their minds expanded and their sphinctres contracted.”

“We sign a contract for a North Rail that cost $17 million per kilometer while the equivalent cost in Shanghai is $7M.”