"You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible economic gain."

"The greatest invention of mankind is the ability to ignore things."

"The more data you have, the more likely you are to find spurious correlations."

"Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet."

"The more you try to predict the future, the more you are fooled by randomness."