We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

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

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.

Love without sacrifice is like theft