Economists are like soldiers selected and trained for only rituals and parades. But they are very good with rituals and parades. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The best researcher is the one who hates academia, the best politician the one who hates politics, best bureaucrat one who hates bureaucracy.

And if journalists were really not interested in money they would be writing literary essays.

I am not here to live forever, as a sick animal. Recall that the antifragility of a system comes from the mortality of its components — and I am part of that larger population called humans. I am here to die a heroic death for the sake of the collective, to produce offspring (and prepare them for life and provide for them), or eventually, books — my information, that is, my genes, the antifragile in me, should be the ones seeking immortality, not me.