The government-sponsored institution Fannie Mae, when I look at its risks, seems to be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, vulnerable to the slightest hiccup. But not to worry: their large staff of scientists deemed these events "unlikely."

An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.

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

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.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.