Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

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.

The woman seems ready to be pleased with the world.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.

Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.