If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.