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

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.

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.

Only the autodidacts are free.