Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.