Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.