Poems List

failure is only the opportunity to begin again.

For my part, seventeen years after my first PhD coursework, I still feel ill at ease with my grasp of many issues, and I am fairly confident that this is not just a question of limited intellect.

Economics is hard. Really hard. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-boggingly hard it is. I mean you may think doing the Sunday Times crossword is difficult, but that’s just peanuts to economics. And because it is so hard, people shouldn’t blithely go shooting their mouths off about it, and pretending like it’s so easy. In fact, we would all be better off if we just ignored these clowns.

Life offers two great gifts--time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

I am not a hardcore coder, I believe n learning science as much as it's needed to complete a task that is assigned to me.

Writers who have not taken a year of PhD coursework in a decent economics department (and passed their PhD qualifying exams), cannot meaningfully advance the discussion on economic policy.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

What I have done is a duty that any Nicaraguan who truly loves his country should have done a long time ago.

The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels...

Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao...

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout...

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning...

There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment -- anywhere.

Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu.

He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent...

He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm...

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.