The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

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.

While the Holy Spirit is hidden, He is never, ever absent

Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze. It maketh me to wake in green pastures: It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses. It restoreth my buzz.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.

I have had to learn about saying no.

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

Customers do not want online games.

God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.

As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China’s reform.