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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 PRELUDES
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The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.
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An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
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Pharmaceutical companies are better at inventing diseases that match existing drugs, rather than inventing drugs to match existing diseases.
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To understand the liberating effect of asceticism, consider that losing all your fortune is much less painful than losing only half of it.
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To bankrupt a fool, give him information
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing.
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In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
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I suspect that they put Socrates to death because there is something terribly unattractive, alienating, and nonhuman in thinking with too much clarity.
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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The test of originality for an idea is not the absence of one single predecessor, but the presence of multiple but incompatible ones.
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Modernity’s double punishment is to make us both age prematurely and live longer.
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An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant, the opposite.
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Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do— something people who take showers discover on occasion.
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If your anger decreases with time, you did injustice; if it increases, you suffered injustice.
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I wonder if those who advocate generosity for its rewards notice the inconsistency, or if what they call generosity is an attractive investment strategy.
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Those who think religion is about “belief” don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
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Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.
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In nature we never repeat the same motion; in captivity (office, gym, commute, sports), life is just repetitive stress injury. No randomness.
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Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
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Compliance with the straitjacket of narrow (Aristotelian) logic and avoidance of fatal inconsistencies are not the same thing.
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Economics cannot digest the idea that the collective (and the aggregate) are disproportionately less predictable than individuals.
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Don’t talk about “progress” in terms of longevity, safety, or comfort before comparing zoo animals to those in the wilderness.
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If you know, in the morning, what your day looks like with any precision, you are a little bit dead—the more precision, the more dead you are.
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There is no intermediate state between ice and water but there is one between life and death: employment.
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