You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

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

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

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.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.