Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.