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

The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.