Ideas come and go, stories stay.

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.