Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

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.

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.