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

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.