He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Information is bad for knowledge.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Political life loves some volatility.

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.