It's dishonourable to stay stupider than you need to be

In the corporate world, if you have analysts, due diligence, and no horse sense, you've just described hell.

We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.

A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent.

If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!

The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.