One useful trick, I discovered, is to avoid listening to the question of the interviewer, and answer with whatever I have been thinking about recentl… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity’s phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism.

Learn to read history, get all the knowledge you can, do not frown on the anecdote, but do not draw any causal links, do not try to reverse engineer too much — but if you do, do not make big scientific claims.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.