In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

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.

At the end of my life I want to say, “I lived every moment of it.

It's not what you look at that matters, It's what you see

Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.

A good ad which is not run never produces sales.

It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.