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George Gilder, born on November 29, 1939, is an American writer, economist, and technology critic. His works cover economics, technology, and public policy, offering profound insights into free markets and technological innovation.

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“The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against entropic noise. Order is not spontaneous, but it is a necessary condition for all the surprises of freedom and opportunity.”

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Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view- that all ideas are determined by material relationships- is the materialist superstition.”

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Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises.”

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Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.”

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“Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater, Chicago and Cambridge, liberal and conservative, Austrian and Keynesian-both sides share an essential economic vision. They see their discipline as successful insofar as it eliminates surprise-insofar, that is, as the inexorable workings of the machine override the initiatives of the human actors.”