I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

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

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.