I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.