We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.