#Things to consider
- Less is more and usually more effective.
- Recall that the fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn’t care too much.
- When you starve yourself of food, it is the bad proteins that are broken down first and recycled by your own body—a process called autophagy.
- When you are fragile, you depend on things following the exact planned course, with as little deviation as possible—for deviations are more harmful than helpful. This is why the fragile needs to be very predictive in its approach, and, conversely, predictive systems cause fragility.
- 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. Swiss flight 111, TWA flight 800, and Air France flight 447 allowed the improvement of the system.
- Switzerland is the most antifragile place on the planet; it benefits from shocks that take place in the rest of the world.
- The most stable country in the world does not have a government. And it is not stable in spite of not having a government; it is stable because it does not have one.
- It is hard to explain to naive data-driven people that risk is in the future, not in the past.
- If you want to accelerate someone’s death, give him a personal doctor. I don’t mean provide him with a bad doctor: just pay for him to choose his own. Any doctor will do.
- The more frequently you look at data, the more noise you are disproportionally likely to get…
- Excess wealth, if you don’t need it, is a heavy burden.
- Stoicism makes you desire the challenge of a calamity.