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

"Universities are turning into corporations, and professors into employees, not scholars."

"I wonder if anyone ever measured the time it takes, at a party, before a mildly successful stranger who went to Harvard makes others aware of it."

"Modernity: we created a system where people are judged by their ability to tell stories rather than by their ability to deliver results."

"If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud."