The consensus is a very dangerous thing to get complacent about.

There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.

[Millennials ] are sharing cars. They're sharing apartments. I'm not sure my generation quite knows how to take advantage of it.

Without going too deep, without globalization I am not sure everyone would be able to have a supercomputer in their pocket at the low cost.

A big secular thing going on is technology and deflation. This is where I think millennials are getting that it is an improvement in life, and they're taking advantage of it.

The ability of people to reach their own news sources now, and create different views, is really unbelievable, and [populism] may be part of this.

The investing public understands that you need to do things to position yourself.

In each business, there is a process, or a delivery system or information system, that is changing rapidly under them.

Digitization has created opportunities for everybody to accumulate information in a way they were never able to, and analyze it with a speed that just wasn't there.

If you're not exposing yourself to a non-consensus view somehow over the course of a day, you can reject them, but you should expose yourself to them.

The only thing I find executives down about is the regulatory environment.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

Failure is a great teacher

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.

I'm the same person. I don't put on a face. I'm the same guy every time you see me.

The sky is the limit when you work hard.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.