An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

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

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.