If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.

... some important factor doesn't lose its "share of force" just because some "expert" can better measure other types of force.

Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.

Fancy computers are engaging in legalized front-running. The profits are clearly coming from the rest of us - our college endowments and our pensions. Why is this legal? What the hell is the government thinking? It's like letting rats into a restaurant.

Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.... You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life.

The quality of the medical care delivered, including the pharmaceutical industry, has improved a lot. I don't think it's crazy for a rich country like the USto spend 15% of GDP on healthcare, and if it rose to 16-17%, it's not a big worry.

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.