The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.