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.

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.