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All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
What they call "play" (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.
Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
Randomness works well in search sometimes better than humans.
The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone
If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.
What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.
Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.
Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears
Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.
Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.