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

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

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

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.