We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference

If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.