Conduct yourself toward your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves toward you.
Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.
Como se supone que dijo Stalin (que algo sabía sobre la mortalidad): «Una muerte es una tragedia; un millón de muertes, una estadística». La estadística permanece callada en nuestro interior.
By throwing enough words together, some unusual and magical-sounding metaphor is bound to emerge according to the laws of combinatorics.
But fragility and antifragility are part of the current property of an object, a coffee table, a company, an industry, a country, a political system. We can detect fragility, see it, even in many case...
Books to me are not expanded journal articles, but reading experiences, and the academics who tend to read in order to cite in their writing--rather than read for enjoyment, curiosity, or simply becau...
Beware the confusion between correctness and intelligibility. Part of conventional wisdom favors things that can be explained rather instantly and in a nutshell—in many circles it is considered law. H...
Beware of the person who gives advice, telling you that a certain action on your part is good for you while it is also good for him, while the harm to you doesn’t directly affect him.
Believe me, it is tough to deal with the social consequences of the appearance of continuous failure. We are social animals; hell is other people.
Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.)
Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislik...
As I got her to explain to other people her evidence about the lack of effectiveness of funding formal education, one person got frustrated with our skepticism. Wolf’s answer to him was real education...
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
And, talking about radiation, few wonder why, after hundreds of million of years of having our skins exposed to sun rays, we suddenly need so much protection from them—is it that our exposure is more...
An insight into how the mechanisms of religion and the transmission of morals obey the same renormalization dynamics as dietary laws—and how we can show that morality is more likely to be something en...
American culture encourages the process of failure, unlike the cultures of Europe and Asia where failure is met with stigma and embarrassment. America’s specialty is to take these small risks for the...
Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.
A mild degree of unpredictability in your behavior can help you to protect yourself in situations of conflict. Say
A civil servant can make rules that are friendly to an industry such as banking—and then go off to J.P. Morgan and recoup a multiple of the difference between his or her current salary and the market...
We are too brainwashed by notions of causality and we think that it is smarter to say because than to accept randomness.