What matters isn't what a person has or doesn't have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.
What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it.
We observe old people and see them age, so we associate aging with their loss of muscle mass, bone weakness, loss of mental function, taste for Frank Sinatra music, and similar degenerative effects. B...
We laugh at others and we don't realize that someone will be just as justified in laughing at us on some not too remote day
We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness. We
Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
They think that intelligence is about noticing things that are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)...
There is this error of thinking that things always have a reason that is accessible to us—that we can comprehend easily.
The virtue of capitalism is that society can take advantage of people’s greed rather than their benevolence, but there is no need to, in addition, extol such greed as a moral (or intellectual) accompl...
The principle of intervention, like that of healers, is first do no harm (primum non nocere); even more, we will argue, those who don’t take risks should never be involved in making decisions.
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
The Golden Rule wants you to Treat others the way you would like them to treat you. The more robust Silver Rule says Do not treat others the way you would not like them to treat you.
Technology is the result of antifragility, exploited by risk-takers in the form of tinkering and trial and error, with nerd-driven design confined to the backstage.
Sosiaalinen media on vakavasti epäsosiaalinen, terveysruoat ovat empiirisesti epäterveellisiä, tietotyöläiset ovat erittäin tietämättömiä ja sosiaalitieteet eivät ole millään tavalla tieteellisiä.
Someone who did not find something is providing others with knowledge, the best knowledge, that of absence (what does not work)—yet he gets little or no credit for it.
So we can learn a lot from data—but not as much as we expect. Sometimes a lot of data can be meaningless; at other times one single piece of information can be very meaningful. It
She received enough attention to get the courtesy of rejection letters and occasional insulting comments instead of the far more insulting and demeaning silence.
Self-contradiction is made culturally to be shameful, a matter that can prove disastrous in science.
Sei vivo in proporzione inversa alla densità delle frasi fatte che usi nei tuoi scritti