People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

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

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

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

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.