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

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.