Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

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

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

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.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

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

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.