A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

Jake and Hunter will make you forget all other book boyfriends you thought you loved!

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

Children represent God's most generous gift to us.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.