Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because "it's my job."

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.