“Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.”

Alluding to the "Birther" controversy
At a American Legislative Exchange Council meeting, New Orleans, August 2011
"Bobby Jindal Just Killed Decades of Republican Tax Policy" http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-15/how-bobby-jindal-killed-a-republican-sacred-cow#r=discussed, BusinessWeek.com, November 15, 2012; retrieved 2012-11-18

Source: Narcissus in Chains

The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

John Perry Barlow 2.0 (2004)
Context: It’s a perfect set of circumstances to give us the time Yeats foretold, with the best having lost all conviction and the worst full of passionate intensity. I’m an optimist. In order to be libertarian, you have to be an optimist. You have to have a benign view of human nature, to believe that human beings left to their own devices are basically good. But I’m not so sure about human institutions, and I think the real point of argument here is whether or not large corporations are human institutions or some other entity we need to be thinking about curtailing. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

Source: The Dear One

A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work