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.

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

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up