The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

You need a story to displace a story.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse