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… is from Virginia Postrel’s brilliant October 23, 1999, speech, “Dynamism, Stasis, and Popular Culture [2]” (link added):
Do you want “simple rules for a complex world [3],” or complex regulations designed to make the world simple?
DBx: If you are wise, you want the former and are repulsed by the latter – repulsed both by the latter’s means as well as by its end.