It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.