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

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.