Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

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

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.