It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.