The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

The inflationary universe model suggests that the universe expanded exponentially in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

Reality is not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us.

在新技术和扩大的市场允许生产和分销过程中材料和信息的流量和速度达到历史上前所未有的高水平时，管理的看得见的手取代了市场力量的看不见的手。