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

In my latest National Post column I say it's past time people stopped being shocked and stunned at populist upsets over smug insiders and started learning useful lessons about offering real choice.

"Half his power lay in a conciliating trick of sinking the commander in the leader."

E.W. Hornung, The Amateur Cracksman gentleman thief

Thinking "Outside the box is one thing – outside the brain is another entirely."

The Report magazine March 3, 2003 [I failed to record the author]

“Mr. Swinburne does not hang up his stocking on the eve of the birthday of Victor Hugo. Mr. William Archer does not sing carols descriptive of the infancy of Ibsen outside people’s doors in the snow…. The strange truth about the matter is told in the very word ‘holiday.’… It is hard to see at first sight why so human a thing as leisure and larkiness should always have a religious origin. Rationally there appears no reason why we should not sing and give each other presents in honour of anything--the birth of Michael Angelo or the opening of Euston Station.  But it does not work. As a fact, men only become greedily and gloriously material about something spiritualistic."

G.K. Chesterton Heretics

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

Noelie Altito