Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli

Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.

Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.

The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.