It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

The power of abstraction is that it allows us to reason about systems at a higher level, without getting bogged down in the details.

在采矿业，我们必须在经济增长和环境管理之间取得平衡，以创造长期价值。

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

"Under capitalism, we are all precarious, but some are more precarious than others."