Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love."

"The difference between a charlatan and a true philosopher is that the charlatan tries to impress you with his knowledge, while the philosopher tries to make you think."

"So long as you see the picture of Larry Summers going to Davos, you have to stay short U.S. Treasuries for another year. It means they [the Obama administration] don't know what's going on."

"Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous."

"I want you to write down that I started wearing them [Steve Jobs turtlenecks] before he did. I want that to be known."

"The world is more random than we think, and we are more fragile than we think."