I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because "it's my job."

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.