People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

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.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.