Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.