The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto Book 4)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane: everything else on your eyelids manipulates you with an ad.

There is no clearer sign of failure than a middle-aged man boasting of his performance in college.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

You can tell how poor someone feels by the number of times he references “money” in his conversation.

wonder if anyone ever measured the time it takes, at a party, before a mildly successful stranger who went to Harvard makes others aware of it.