Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.

We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.

The field of financial innovation, without rules that tie it to human productive output will be the cause of the next revolution.

Our entire economy is based on productivity measures that have little to do with “human input”. Sooner or later the entire system will collapse revealing the fallacy of an economy based on finance.

Respect and appreciate yourself.This is your responsibility for your soul.

Every woman deserves to be handled like a princess, She just needs to find her prince.

To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

When fate's got it in for you there's no limit to what you may have to put up with.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

The kind of operation that is necessary to help us out of our dualistic thinking is a nondual experience. Then we begin to see things as one again.

I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.