But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

Catch someone doing something right.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.