Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.