The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.