Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.