My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

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

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.