Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.

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.

Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

To love others we must first learn to love ourselves.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.

Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

Let's hit the joke once and move on to the next joke and just keep it where we have as many jokes per square inch as possible.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.