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

Information is bad for knowledge.

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.

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.

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

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 opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.