“Since becoming a central banker, I have learnt to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. ”

“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite. ”

“In the end, America is not ruled by ethics. It is ruled by law.”

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agress with your own reason and your own common sense.”

“I have a weakness for grandiose, meaningless projects.”

“The first casualty of any war is the truth.”

“Hofstadter’s Law:

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter’s Law into account.”

“‘Now take a sheep’, the Sergeant said.
’What is a sheep [but] millions of little bits of sheepness whirling around and doing intricate convolutions inside the sheep? What else is it but that?’”

“In navigating the world and deciding what is rewarding, humans are closer to zombies than sentient beings much of the time.”

“... more difficult to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegan’s Wake in a wind tunnel. ”

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.”

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

“Just because its a model doesn’t mean its necessarily wrong.”

“Even with railways it is better to keep a two-wheeled cart.”

“Throwing stones in water, watch the ripples produced by them; otherwise such stone throwing will be a meaningless pastime.”