The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.