He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

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

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations