True wealth consists in worriless sleeping, clear conscience, reciprocal gratitude, absence of envy, good appetite, muscle strength, physical energy, frequent laughs, no meals alone, no gym class, som...
A series of corroborative facts is not necessarily evidence. Seeing
Marketing is bad manners—and I rely on my naturalistic and ecological instincts. Say you run into a person during a boat cruise. What would you do if he started boasting of his accomplishments, tellin...
If my brain can ttell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot.
We flipped a coin to see who was going to pay for the meal. I lost and paid. He was about to thank me when he abruptly stopped and said that he paid for half of it probabilistically.
The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it.
The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse. Laws come and go; ethics stay.
The biologist and intellectual E. O. Wilson was once asked what represented the most hindrance to the development of children; his answer was the soccer mom [helicopter parent]….They try to eliminate...
Simply, humans should not be given explosive toys (like atomic bombs, financial derivatives, or tools to create life).
Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.
Never listen to a leftist who does not give away his fortune or does not live the exact lifestyle he wants others to follow. What the French call the caviar left, la gauche caviar, or what Anglo-Saxon...
Likewise, an increase in personal performance (regardless of whether it is caused deterministically or by the agency of Lady Fortuna) induces a rise of serotonin in the subject, itself causing an incr...
It takes a huge investment in introspection to learn that the thirty or more hours spent studying the news last month neither had any predictive ability during your activities of that month nor did it...
But promoting philosophical skepticism is not quite the mission of this book. If awareness of the Black Swan problem can lead us into withdrawal and extreme skepticism, I take here the exact opposite...
And entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere survival of the economy.
Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.
Somehow it is only when you don’t care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.
The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology.
On the day when we are able to foresee inventions we will be living in a state where everything conceivable has been invented. Our
Most feed their obsessions by trying to get rid of them.