People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
Nassim Nicholas TalebAny system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.
Nassim Nicholas TalebWittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb