No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

One finds limits by pushing them.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little.

Gratitude is a Beautiful Virtue but don't get offended when ingratitude is shown or your good deeds.

Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.

There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

I don't do any Class A - especially not cocaine - after seeing what it does to people.

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.

Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gun play.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness