When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

If Microsoft had never existed... The industry would probably be very fragmented.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

I studied economics and thought I wanted to play with the stock market - my dad was a financial adviser - and I was going to go down that path. I was an intern at Smith Barney.

Globalization is a fact of economic life.

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read comic books back then.

I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

As a comic and as an actor, I think you've got to be partially crazy.

I've always published a range of responses to my work in the letters section of my comic book.

I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

Unfortunately, when you look at the amount of comic book heroes out there, minority heroes are few and far between.

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

O'Reilly continues to hide behind his microphone.

When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it like that's what Jamaica's about. And it affects the economics of the music.

'No' is a dynamic that you've got to master before you can ever master 'yes.'