Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is read more

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

The market continues to be uncertain about the underlying leadership after many years of being used to the big-cap stocks read more

The market continues to be uncertain about the underlying leadership after many years of being used to the big-cap stocks leading. We're also somewhat nervous about the earnings.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman read more

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's a psychological thing. They read more

There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's a psychological thing. They read about it every day.

The key issue that the court will focus on in the case is whether political gerrymandering is constitutional.

The key issue that the court will focus on in the case is whether political gerrymandering is constitutional.

Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we read more

Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we can't get it together [in the face of Hurricane Katrina], ... So imagine a country that's very poor, with a clunky bureaucracy. The ability to coordinate and manage this sort of crisis, especially in a country with corruption, high levels of alcoholism and a top-heavy bureaucracy, is challenging.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For read more

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

In terms of risk, if something is not doing well, we are able to get out of it and take read more

In terms of risk, if something is not doing well, we are able to get out of it and take risk with other, newer merchandise. We've just gotten a lot better at managing our inventories.