Unless we manipulate our surroundings, we have as little control over what and whom we think about as we do over the muscles of our hearts. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We expect places and products to be less attractive than in marketing brochures, but we never forgive humans for being worse than their first impressions

Thirty-nine percent of Americans will spend a year in the top 5 percent of the income distribution, 56 percent will find themselves in the top 10 percent, and 73 percent will spend a year in the top 20 percent.

I reject a sole time series of the past as an indication of future performance; I need a lot more than data.