"Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect."

“Paul Riser tells it in an interesting way; he dissects it and tells the structure, you know, 'you don't mention that part here.' But that's what's interesting about it and the people who are absent are interesting too.”

“Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.”

“I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”

“In companies, there are three activities that should be labeled better. First there is the "CORE" which is the thing the company does that its customers pay it to do.”

“You will never go wrong in concluding that a man has once loved deeply whatever he hates, and loves it yet; that he once admired and still admires what he scorns, that he once greedily desired what now disgusts him.”

Source : Georg Groddeck (2015). “The Book of the It”, p.73, Ravenio Books

“Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger,”

“The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody”

“My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.”

Source : "What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?". Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics Radio, March 24, 2010.