The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

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

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.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination