People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because "it's my job."

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.