Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely."

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

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.