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

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.