“What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on the computer. But they did this less with honest curiosity than in the spirit o...”

“What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they dont need to make smart decisionsif they can get rich making dumb decisions?”

“He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on collision.”

“Danny explained, Reforms always create winners and losers, and the losers will always fight harder than the winners. How did you get the losers to accept change? The prevailing strategy on the Isra...”

“The triple of Jeremy Brown's imagination, in reality, is a home run.”

“The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.”

“If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.”

“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”

“Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.”

“I think there's a difference between (a) offending people for its own sake, which I don't necessarily want to do, because some people are good and decent and it would be unkind to upset them simply...”

“If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.”

“Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what youre going to say ...”

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”

“Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate ...”