Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

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.

Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither