The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

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.

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.

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.

Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

You go outside with me right now, we'll ask twelve people on the street what they think about Jews. And all I need's one.

I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.