“Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appe...” — Marilyn vos Savant Quote

“Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.”

“The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.”

“Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.”

“Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously the risk-management system of any one bank appears, after the fact, to be incomplete. We ended up where banks couldn't liquidate their risk, and the system tended to freeze up.”

“The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.”