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

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.