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.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it has any negative impact on people's lives outside of intolerance. Why do I go to church? It's like asking, why did you marry that woman? You make up reasons, but it's probably just smell. I love the smell of candles. It's an aesthetic thing.

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.