A trader's mental construction should direct him to do precisely what other people do not do. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"My experience is that money and transactions purify relations; ideas and abstract matters like "recognition" and "credit" warp them, creating an atmosphere of perpetual rivalry."

"The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us." - N.N.Taleb

I trust everyone except those who tell me they are trustworthy.