A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

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

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.

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing