The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

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

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.