The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.

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.

Responsibility entails that we demand and work for the change or transformation we yearn for in our society instead of wishful thoughts.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

In America we believe there ought to be limits on government.

I believe the universe presents more options to a more loving mind.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.