Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

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

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.