“ My classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she'… Alan Moore
