Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds widen their horizons inflame their intellects teach them to think straight if possible.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert but it's always nice to share that with your friends.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.

I'm doing everything that I can working with experts really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

Over and over again financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over they ignobly fail because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal ' the 'New York Times ' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.