“Then the shit hit the fan.”

“There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.”

“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.”

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”

“If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).”

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”