Many people labor in life under the impression that they are doing something right, yet they may not show solid results for a long time. They need a capacity for continuously adjourned gratification t...
Many claim that caloric restriction (permanent or episodic) activates healthy reactions and switches that, among other benefits, lengthen life expectancy in laboratory animals. We humans live too long...
Makridakis and Hibon reached the sad conclusion that statistically sophisticated or complex methods do not necessarily provide more accurate forecasts than simpler ones.
Los emprendedores son unos héroes en nuestra sociedad. Fracasan por el resto de nosotros
Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.
Je préférerais être bête et antifragile qu’extrêmement intelligent et fragile, à n’importe quel moment.
First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud. Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone commi...
Almost all people answer that the opposite of fragile is robust, resilient, solid, or something of the sort. But the resilient, robust (and company) items that neither break nor improve, so you would...
Alas, investors and businesses are not paid in probabilities; they are paid in dollars. Accordingly, it is not how likely an event is to happen that matters, it is how much is made when it happens tha...
Why did we build something so fragile to these types of events? Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not.
Understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human pursuit.
There is something in nature you don’t understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding.
Scholars—scholarship without erudition and natural curiosity can close your mind and lead to the fragmentation of disciplines.
Probability is principally a branch of applied skepticism,
Never trust the words of a man who is not free.
Ignoramus et ignorabimus—we are ignorant and will remain so. Somehow
Doxastic
Central problem is that birds rarely write more than ornithologists—Combining
You never win an argument until they attack your person.
You have far more control over your life if you decide on your criterion by yourself.