Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

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

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.