"I would say if Charlie and I have any advantage it's not because we're so smart, it is because we're rational and we very seldom let extraneous factors interfere with our thoughts. We don't let other people's opinion interfere with it...we try to get fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. We try to avoid any kind of imitation of other people's behavior. And those are the factors that cause smart people to get bad results."
"If we know what doesn't work we don't go there. Buddha said, "I only teach one thing. I teach the cause of human sorrow -- and how to avoid some of it." Now that isn't exactly what he said -- it isn't word for word, but that is the gist of it."
"Keep it simple and make it easy for yourself. There is no magic to it....We haven't succeeded because we have some great, complicated systems or magic formulas we apply or anything of the sort. What we have is just simplicity itself. Our ideas are so simple that people keep asking us for mysteries when all we have are the most elementary ideas. I think a lot of people make things far more complicated than they need to."
"I always liked Occam's Razor. That is a wonderful way to think. You can never make any explanation that can be made in a more fundamental way in any other way the most fundamental way...the most fundamental ideas...the more fundamental body of knowledge. The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available...to the more fundamental body of knowledge...saves a lot of time in this world. You can argue that Einstein's whole career was just a marvelous demonstration of Occam's razor. E= mc2 is a pretty simple idea but think of the power of it."
There is always more by the way...you just need to get your hands on the the almanac...it contains the keys...