He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

The vicious cycle that is bringing down European states is not going to hit us [the USA], at least not for a while, at the level of the federal government. The same cannot be said of state and local governments.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.