“The general principle of antifragility: it is much better to do things you cannot explain than explain things you cannot do.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

“Never complain about your enemies. You can insult them, anger them, expose them, but never whine about them. Push them to complain about you.”

—-Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

“You are as good as how nice you are to people you don’t have to be nice to.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

“Don’t disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don’t understand their logic. Don’t pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific ‘evidence’.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

“Trust none of what you hear, half of what you read, most of what you see.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

‘You can almost certainly extract a “yes” from someone who says “no” to you, never from someone who says nothing.’

—-Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

“IQ testing is like making cars compete in a racetrack, and use it to make claims about their ability to cross a dense forest (with unpaved roads) such as the Amazon.”

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb.