...maximize the serendipity around you.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

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

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

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.