The health benefits of the "Mediterranean diet" aren't in the food: people spend their lives climbing stairs and steep hills. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"It was a different feeling: it is hard to focus on a conversation, especially when it is mathematical, when you have just personally earned several hundreds of times the annual salary of the researcher trying to tell you that you are "wrong," by betting against his representation of the world."

What we call "business books" is an eliminative category invented by bookstores for writings that have no depth, no style, no empirical rigor, and no linguistic sophistication.

All models are wrong, many are useful, some are deadly.