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

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.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

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

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