I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.

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

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum