We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy.

I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it's a well run institution - say, Goldman Sachs - it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.