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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#benefit #both #central #exchange #fact

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#experience #hypothesis #only #prediction #relevant

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#i #i think #intuitive #lot #shares

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#capitalism #debate #free-market #historical #over

There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#calling #committee #couple #course #developed

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#flat #most #our #political #realized

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#clean #country #develop #invention #more

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#al #chain #dell #global #iraq

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#before #care #collaborate #compete #connect

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#ecosystem #favorite #fuel #innovation #know