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...
Mental effort moves us into higher gear, activating more vigorous and more analytical brain machinery.
All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
A series of corroborative facts is not necessarily evidence. Seeing
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.
Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.
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...
Life is sacrifice and risk taking, and nothing that doesn't entail some moderate amount of the former, under the constraint of satisfying the latter, is close to what we can call life. If you do not u...
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have...
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.
A escala federal, soy liberal; a escala estatal, republicano; a escala local, demócrata; y con mi familia y mis amigos, socialista.
Simply, humans should not be given explosive toys (like atomic bombs, financial derivatives, or tools to create life).
On the day when we are able to foresee inventions we will be living in a state where everything conceivable has been invented. Our
If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view—and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposi...
Somehow it is only when you don’t care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.
Theories are superfragile; they come and go, then come and go, then come and go again;
People overvalue their knowledge and underestimate the probability of their being wrong.