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

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

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

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

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

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.'

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.