You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Religion isnt so much about telling man that there is one God as about preventing man from thinking that he is God.

Socrates used to walk around the house delaying his meal as he held that hunger was the best seasoning. () Fasting can turn any meal into a Michelin 3 star.

Almost everything in social life is produced by rare but consequential shocks and jumps; all the while almost everything studied about social life focuses on the “normal,” particularly with “bell curve” methods of inference that tell you close to nothing. Why? Because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty. Its nickname in this book is GIF, Great Intellectual Fraud.