Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

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.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.

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