Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

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

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

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.