Things always become obvious after the fact

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

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

I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.