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

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

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

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.