I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.