Hayek, keď dostal Nobelovu cenu (nieže by to niečo znamenalo, nobelovky dostavaju poväčšinou samí kokoti), tak vo svojej preberacej reči povedal [okrem iného] niečo s čím sa na 100% stotožňujem. Povedal to veľmi pekným, až politicky korektným spôsobom:
If man is not to do more harm than good in his efforts to improve the social order, he will have to learn that in this, as in all other fields where essential complexity of an organized kind prevails, he cannot acquire the full knowledge which would make mastery of the events possible. ... The recognition of the insuperable limits to his knowledge ought indeed to teach the student of society a lesson of humility which should guard him against becoming an accomplice in men's fatal striving to control society — a striving which makes him not only a tyrant over his fellows, but which may well make him the destroyer of a civilization which no brain has designed but which has grown from the free efforts of millions of individuals.
Lew Rockwell parafrázoval túto myšlienku takto:
He said that the most dangerous person on earth is an arrogant intellectual who lacks the humility necessary to see that society needs no masters and cannot be planned from the top down. An intellectual lacking humility can become a tyrant — and an accomplice in the destruction of civilization itself.
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