The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.

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.

We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

It’s been a tsunami of media and I’ve been riding it on a mercury surfboard.

How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out. They sold their soul to the devil, and the devil is dill.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.