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

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.