My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.

You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse