Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better

We have a history when things are really horrible of wading in when no one else will.

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.

Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?

Quoting Demosthenes, 'For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.' I would rather make money playing a piano in a whorehouse than arguing that no cost is incurred when employees are paid in stock options instead of cash. I am not kidding.

I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person's brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit.

Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.