I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.

I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

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