When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

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.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

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

We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?