By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

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

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

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.

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

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