If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

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

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death