There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.

Most people are too fretful, they worry to much. Success means being very patient, but aggressive when it's time.

If you always tell people why, they'll understand it better, they'll consider it more important, and they'll be more likely to comply.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

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

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a truffle hound. That's what Jacob Viner, the great economist called it: the truffle hound - an animal so bred and trained for one narrow purpose that he wasn't much good at anything else, and that is the reward system in a lot of academic departments.