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2013-05-26 (T)he more complicated the regulation, the more prone to arbitrages by insiders. (0) (0)
2013-05-25 Only he who has true beliefs will avoid eventually contradicting himself and falling into the errors of postdicting. (0) (0)
2013-05-24 Note that in traditional societies even those who fail—but have taken risks—have a higher status than those who are not exposed. (0) (0)
2013-05-23 If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don’t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing. (1) (0)
2013-05-22 The good is mostly in the absence of bad. ~ Ennius (3) (0)
2013-05-21 Things break on a small scale all the time, in order to avoid large-scale generalized catastrophes. (0) (0)
2013-05-21 Simply, humans should not be given explosive toys (like atomic bombs, financial derivatives, or tools to create life). (0) (0)
2013-05-19 Sometimes tiredness is also something to be enjoyed, as it shows that you\'re living life to the full. (1) (0)
2013-05-19 Technology is at its best when it is invisible. (0) (0)
2013-05-18 As they say in the mafia, just work on removing the pebble in your shoe. (4) (0)
2013-05-18 At the touch of love, everyone becomes poet. ~ Plato (0) (0)
2013-05-17 The world is getting less and less predictable, and we rely more and more on technologies that have errors and interactions that are harder to estimate, let alone predict. (0) (0)
2013-05-14 What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent. ~ Nietzsche (2) (0)
2013-05-14 (T)here is something central in following one’s own direction in the selection of readings: what I was given to study in school I have forgotten; what I decided to read on my own, I still remember. (0) (0)
2013-05-14 Much of what other people know isn\'t worth knowing. (0) (0)
2013-05-13 I realized that school was a plot designed to deprive people of erudition by squeezing their knowledge into a narrow set of authors. (0) (0)
2013-05-13 Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living. (0) (0)
2013-05-13 Life is like a piano, what you get out of it depends on how you play it. (0) (0)
2013-05-12 Time can heal a broken heart, but time can also break a waiting heart. (0) (0)
2013-05-11 People we call ignorant might not be ignorant. (0) (0)
2013-05-10 People look for books that support their mental program. (0) (0)
2013-05-10 In many pursuits, every trial, every failure provides additional information, each more valuable than the previous one. (0) (0)
2013-05-10 A really good friend will make you feel comfortable being who you are. (0) (0)
2013-05-08 The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses tend to end up socializing with other people with big houses. (0) (0)
2013-05-07 A smile is a curve that sets everything straight! (0) (0)
2013-05-07 Indeed, Georges Simenon, one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, only wrote sixty days a year, with three hundred days spent “doing nothing.” He published more than two hundred novels. (0) (0)
2013-05-07 As Publilius Syrus wrote, nothing can be done both hastily and safely—almost nothing. (5) (0)
2013-05-06 Men feel the good less intensely than the bad. ~ Livy (0) (0)
2013-05-06 When you become rich, the pain of losing your fortune exceeds the emotional gain of getting additional wealth, so you start living under continuous emotional threat. (0) (0)
2013-05-06 Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. (0) (0)
2013-05-06 The sea gets deeper as you go further into it, according to a Venetian proverb. (30) (0)
2013-05-05 Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not. (0) (0)
2013-05-05 There are ample empirical findings to the effect that providing someone with a random numerical forecast increases his risk taking, even if the person knows the projections are random. (0) (0)
2013-05-05 A very rarely discussed property of data: it is toxic in large quantities—even in moderate quantities. (0) (0)
2013-05-05 Using my ecological reasoning, someone who procrastinates is not irrational; it is his environment that is irrational. And the psychologist or economist calling him irrational is the one who is beyond irrational. (1) (0)
2013-05-04 The longer one goes without a market trauma, the worse the damage when commotion occurs. (0) (0)
2013-05-04 When a currency never varies, a slight, very slight move makes people believe that the world is ending. Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system. (0) (0)
2013-05-03 Someone who did not find something is providing others with knowledge, the best knowledge, that of absence (what does not work)—yet he gets little or no credit for it. He is a central part of the process with incentives going to others and, what is worse, gets no respect. (0) (0)
2013-05-02 What does not kill me makes me stronger. ~ Nietzsche (0) (0)
2013-05-02 Both your failures and your successes will give you information. (0) (0)
2013-05-02 Every plane crash brings us closer to safety, improves the system, and makes the next flight safer—those who perish contribute to the overall safety of others. (0) (0)
2013-05-02 Had the Titanic not had that famous accident, as fatal as it was, we would have kept building larger and larger ocean liners and the next disaster would have been even more tragic. (0) (0)
2013-05-02 If every trial provides you with information about what does not work, you start zooming in on a solution—so every attempt becomes more valuable, more like an expense than an error. (0) (0)
2013-05-02 The harder you try to harm bacteria, the stronger the survivors will be—unless you can man- age to eradicate them completely. (0) (0)
2013-05-02 Life always gives us something to smile about. (3) (0)
2013-05-01 If you walk on uneven, not man-made terrain, no two steps will ever be identical—compare that to the randomness-free gym machine offering the exact opposite: forcing you into endless repetitions of the very same movement. (0) (0)
2013-05-01 All the wealth of the world can’t buy a liquid more pleasurable than water after intense thirst. (0) (0)
2013-05-01 If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead. (0) (0)
2013-04-30 Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least. (1) (0)
2013-04-30 Try it out with the following experiment in spreading gossip: tell someone a secret and qualify it by insisting that it is a secret, begging your listener “not to tell anyone”; the more you insist that it remain a secret, the more it will spread. (0) (0)
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