The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

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.

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

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

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.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up