The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.