Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

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