Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it has any negative impact on people's lives outside of intolerance. Why do I go to church? It's like asking, why did you marry that woman? You make up reasons, but it's probably just smell. I love the smell of candles. It's an aesthetic thing.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.