From Rand's website
"At a sales conference at Random House, preceding the publication of Atlas Shrugged, one of the book salesmen asked me whether I could present the essence of my philosophy while standing on one foot. I did as follows:
1. Metaphysics: Objective Reality
2. Epistemology: Reason
3. Ethics: Self-interest
4. Politics: Capitalism
If you want this translated into simple language, it would read: 1. "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed" or "Wishing won't make it so." 2. "You can't eat your cake and have it, too." 3. "Man is an end in himself." 4. "Give me liberty or give me death.""
I find this interesting, not entirely for the philosophy but for the fact that she described it on one foot. Mom says this is a Jewish way of saying, "Make it brief."
Anyway, I'm done reading Atlas Shrugged. I might do The Fountainhead next, but I'll probably wait for next semester to do it, since I don't have a lot of driving to do for the rest of the year.