Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.