If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions. Others who are better at internalized learning use the thoughts that flow from their subconscious. The experienced skier doesn't recite instructions on how to ski and then execute them; rather, he does it well "without thinking," in the same way he breathes without thinking. Understanding these differences is essential.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

Sometimes we forge our own principles and sometimes we accept others' principles, or holistic packages of principles, such as religion and legal systems. While it isn't necessarily a bad thing to use others' principles - it's difficult to come up with your own, and often much wisdom has gone into those already created - adopting pre-packaged principles without much thought exposes you to the risk of inconsistency with your true values.