The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

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

Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.