If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Failure is not terrible, what is terrible is not daring to try.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Under uncertainty, it's better to err on the side of being too aggressive than too passive.