A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because "it's my job."

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.