I was part of the consensus view on derivatives, and it’s fair to say that the consensus missed it. We should have done more to protect the American people.

Encore un effort, citoyens de l’Europe, et vous serez européens!

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

Without mathematics we might as well live in a cave.

If you want to change the world, you have to co-opt the people who write the big checks.