People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

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

Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.