You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

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

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

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.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

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