A man is morally free when … he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in
A Solution Waiting for a Problem Engineers tend to develop tools for the pleasure of developing tools, not to induce nature to yield its secrets. It so happens that some of these tools bring us more k...
La muerte a menudo es un buen paso profesional para el escritor).
C) If the function is convex (antifragile), then the average of the function of something is going to be higher than the function of the average of something. And the reverse when the function is conc...
Things always become obvious after the fact
You’d even rather have a failed real person than a successful one, as blemishes, scars, and character flaws increase the distance between a human and a ghost.
We are effectively not skilled at intuitively gauging the impact of the improbable, such
Way too many cooks in the same tiny kitchen, most of whom never have to taste the food.
Today we depend on the press for such essentially human things as gossip and anecdotes and we care about the private lives of people in very remote places.
Those who are very good at predicting the past will think of themselves as good at predicting the future,
The simpler and more obvious the discovery, the less equipped we are to figure it out by complicated methods.
The following simple exercise concerning the prediction of the movements of billiard balls on a table. I use the example as computed by the mathematician Michael Berry. If you know a set of basic para...
Second category, practitioners who, instead of studying future events, try to understand how things react to volatility (but practitioners are usually too busy practitioning to write books, articles,...
Science is about how not to be a sucker.
Research on happiness shows that those who live under a self-imposed pressure to be optimal in their enjoyment of things suffer a measure of distress.
Reality does not have the same closed and symmetric laws and regulations as games.
Often an action’s positive consequences benefit only its author, since they are visible, while the negative consequences, being invisible, apply to others, with a net cost to society. Consider
Newspapers do not have to have a screaming headline saying that nothing new is taking place (though the Bible was smart enough to declare ein chadash tachat hashemesh— nothing new under the sun, provi...
Naïve empiricism, we have a natural tendency to look for instances that confirm our story and our vision of the world—these instances are always easy to find. Alas,