Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

What I learned on my own I still remember

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

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.