Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history.

Never trust anyone who doesn't have skin in the game. Without it, fools and crooks will benefit, and their mistakes will never come back to haunt them.