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.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

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.