When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.
A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks
I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.
If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.
I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.
I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.