Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see