You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

It is said some lives are linked across time. Connected by an ancient calling that echoes through the ages. Destiny.

Every conceivable layer of the election process is completely riddled with vulnerabilities, so yes, hacking elections is easy!

The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Everybody has a talent, but its what you do with that talent to make it great.

None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies - Poverty, unemployment.

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.