What kills me makes others stronger.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

Political life loves some volatility.