As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.