Lama Khaiyat

“The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“رسالة إلى مخترع الفياقرا: ياسيدي المخترع العظيم ، يامن صنعت بلسما قضى على مواجع الكهولة وأيقظ الفحولة، أما لديك بلسم يعيد في أمتنا الرجولة”
― غازي بن عبد الرحمن القصيبي

“Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.”
― Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

“Finally, when young people who “want to help mankind” come to me asking, “What should I do? I want to reduce poverty, save the world,” and similar noble aspirations at the macro-level, my suggestion is: 1) Never engage in virtue signaling; 2) Never engage in rent-seeking; 3) You must start a business. Put yourself on the line, start a business.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life