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

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

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.