You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

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.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.