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.

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.