If you desperately need a job， you are just another problem for a boss； if you can solve many of the problems the boss has right now， you are hired. To be hired， think like your boss.

"Capitalist realism is what happens when people stop believing that capitalism is a temporary system, and instead see it as the only possible reality."

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good.

I think that the role of the mathematician is to discover these patterns and to explain them.