The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans - you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.