In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

What kills me makes others stronger.

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.