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

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.

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.

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

I have no doubt that Taylor Swift will call one day after suffering writers block: "Alfa, I was told that you were the person to call." I gotcha girlfriend.

Hug your customers but also offer handshake to your competitors.

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.

Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.