When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.
Beware of economists who hide assumptions.
Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.
No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with. . . . The existence of banks with single digit amounts of equity is a completely unhealthy existence -- that is not only a risk for the banks, but for all of us.
Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?
The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.
The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.
This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.