Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

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.

His Majesty's dominions on which the sun never sets.

When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.

He looks like he needs worming.

Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it's up to all of us to find our way back to the light.

Directors should not be forced to advocate anything in their works because of their demographic identity.

If you are afraid of someone, you immediately give them an advantage and give them entry to your awareness field.

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.