I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.
I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.
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.
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
Fate does not play jokes.
The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.