When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

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.

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

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending