Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

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

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

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

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