You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To figure out how well you will do 10 years from now relative to someone else, count your enemies, count his, and square the ratio.

Resting is valuable only if you are resting *from* something.

This book is the synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense practitioner of uncertainty who spent his professional life trying to resist being fooled by randomness and trick the emotions associated with probabilistic outcomes and, on the other, the aesthetically obsessed, literature-loving human being willing to be fooled by any form of nonsense that is polished, refined, original, and tasteful. I am not capable of avoiding being the fool of randomness; what I can do is confine it to where it brings some aesthetic gratification.