The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
We recognized early on that smart people do very dumb things, and we wanted to know why and who, so that we could avoid them.
The modern state is characterized by its ability to concentrate and use power in a way that premodern states could not.
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.
现代国家的特点是其能够以前现代国家无法做到的方式集中和使用权力。
良好的教养在于隐藏我们对自己较佳的评价，以及隐藏我们对他人较差的评价。
我对什么是重要的，什么是不重要的有不同的理解。
善良一点，因为你遇到的每个人都在打一场艰苦的战斗。