In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

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

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

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

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.