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

Only the autodidacts are free.

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.