This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

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

If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.