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.

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.

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.