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

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

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

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.