The deepest purpose of reading and education is to teach us how to be alone.Michael Lewis
But the problem with things that happen only rarely is that human beings are terrible at preparing for them.Michael Lewis
If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it’s better never to really understand those problems.Michael Lewis
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.Michael Lewis
The government, even at its worst, under the most unsympathetic political leadership, was doing crucial things uncelebrated.Michael Lewis
A lot of life, it seemed to me, was the physical and logistical details one remembers, the impressions one does not forget.Michael Lewis
Without science, you wind up basing your belief on anecdotes.Michael Lewis
The risk we should most fear is not the risk we easily imagine. It is the risk that we don’t.Michael Lewis
The best way to get people not to think about those risks was to have projects that were aimed at protecting us from them.Michael Lewis
The fifth risk is the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions.Michael Lewis