The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

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