"You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you."

“I think initially the impetus for doing stuff yourself comes from your love of other music.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today?  What I tried to leave my students with is the view that the invisible hand is more powerful than the [un]hidden hand.  Things will happen in well-organized efforts without direction, controls, plans.  That's the consensus among economists.  That's the Hayek legacy.”

Source : "The Commanding Heights". Book by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, 1998.

“Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.”

“I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.”

“The drone war takes place 24/7, 365 days a year. The war doesn't stop on Christmas. It's like being a fireman when there's a fire every single day, day after day after day. That's emotionally and physically taxing.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?”

Source : Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.283, University of Illinois Press

“I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.”

“The early commitments, early recruiting, that had changed. The whole clock is pushed ahead and you have to make decisions earlier about who to and who not to recruit. Is that a good thing I'm not sure, but it is reality.”