Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum

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.

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

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

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