Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
I am scared of running out of money.
I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.
Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.