I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.

Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

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

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.