The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

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

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.

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

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.