Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it has any negative impact on people's lives outside of intolerance. Why do I go to church? It's like asking, why did you marry that woman? You make up reasons, but it's probably just smell. I love the smell of candles. It's an aesthetic thing.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

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.