There is more uncertainty than usual about job futures because computers are replacing more and more human intelligence, and globalization is proceeding at an accelerating pace.

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.

The terror takes you. The cage is locked and the curtain drawn. Fingers dance along as blades, carving memories into your flesh that will leave scars long past being healed.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

My kids are funny. They won't eat the heels on a loaf of bread. So I patiently explained to them that they eat rolls, and rolls are all crust, just like heels...and now they won't eat rolls!

Private Perkins is a funny little codger.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

Compared to the NBA, the ABA was FABULOUS.

Supporting customers through multiple channels is no longer an option for financial services organizations; it's a necessity.

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.