Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

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.

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!

Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone.

There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.

To allow your Spirit to manifest, you have to understand Its nature. Spirit can never be aggressive, can never dominate. It respects the freedom of another person because It's a free being.

A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented.

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

The less you are like others, the less others will like you.