At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.

Information is bad for knowledge.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.