If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

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.

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.