“The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.”
A Manifesto for the Fast World, New York Times, March 28, 1999, 2010-06-28 http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/28/magazine/a-manifesto-for-the-fast-world.html, <br class="br">http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/172/29945.html
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