Magnificence is defined by the intersection of reluctant praise by your enemies and criticism by your friends; greatness by their union. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The iatrogenics is in the patient, not in the treatment. If the patient is close to death, all speculative treatments should be encouraged no holds barred. Conversely, if the patient is near healthy, then Mother Nature should be the doctor." - Taleb

There is no such thing as a failed soldier, dead or alive (unless he acted in a cowardly manner)—likewise there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur or failed scientific researcher ...

It is immoral to be in opposition to the market system and not live (somewhere in Vermont or Northwestern Afghanistan) in a hut or cave isolated from it.