Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

Only the autodidacts are free.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

What I learned on my own I still remember

Remember that you are a Black Swan.