You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.