Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.

Information is bad for knowledge.

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

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

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

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.