If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

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.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.