"There are no right answers to wrong questions."

“Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.”

“I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.”

“To model correctly one tranche of one CDO took about three hours on one of the fastest computers in the United States. There is no chance that pretty much anybody understood what they were doing with these securities. Creating things that you don't understand is really not a good idea no matter who owns it.”

Source : "John Thain Admits He Didn't Understand Merrill's Risks" by John Carney, www.businessinsider.com. October 07, 2009,.

“I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.”

“Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question.”

“I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.”

“Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.”

Source : Scott E. Page (2008). “The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies”, p.26, Princeton University Press

“Even if you can't get rid of the heat, as long as you can get rid of bother with the heat, your body is always on a cool terrace. Even if you can't get rid of poverty, as long as you can get rid of the sadness of poverty, your mind always lives in a comfortable abode.”