"It gave him an extraordinary degree of privacy, as well as control over his travel schedule -- privacy and control over his time ranking in the top handful of things that Buffett cared most about on earth." -- about Warren Buffett's jet, from page 535, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.

A relevant and interesting quote in the context of various memes swirling around today, including Wikileaks, TSA searches of commercial, non-private-jet passengers, financial regulation, Passports broadcasting id's via RFID, Biometrics and RFID becoming default requirements without thought, DNA swabs of non-criminals and UN officials, assymetry of government versus individual power, ...