Only Ponzi schemes should depend on confidence. Governments should never need to restore confidence. Cascading rumours are a product of complex systems. Governments cannot stop the rumours. Simply, we need to be in a position to shrug off rumours, be robust in the face of them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
money
products government system
In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
business science
You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment
race change
What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.
thetimes time
The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.
death
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
deeds mind history
Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura.
talent history
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
man age
A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
man
Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.
belief man
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than out own.
life wisdom self
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
success
Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
results philosophy literature science
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
science
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