You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you’d need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don’t have anything like that.
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.
I don’t read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
Democracies can’t handle austerity measures very well.
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I’ve no idea what’s going on. I’m disconnected. I’m totally disengaged.
I’m a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag, a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label “Lebanese,” preferring the less restrictive “Levantine” designation.
An option hides where we don’t want it to hide.
For the robust, an error is information.
The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.
Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.
The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
Randomness works well in search sometimes better than humans.