"Veni, Vidi, Visa: I came, I saw, I shopped."
"Top 20 Internet Tag Lines" in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)
The economic problem society faces "is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality."
"The Use of Knowledge in Society” in Friedrich Hayek Individualism and Economic Order
"I rather like materialism. The poor need it."
"V.S. Naipaul, Nobel laureate in literature, answering a question from an audience in India”
quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail August 12, 2009
In my latest Mercatornet article I say the extended version "making of" DVDs show that The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was an amazing logistical and creative achievement that unhappily missed much of the moral point of Tolkien's masterpiece.