A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature