Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.