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.

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

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

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.

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

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

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.