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

If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

Luck is the grand equalizer.