You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

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

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.