When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

What kills me makes others stronger.

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.