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2009-2010 This was NNT’s initial Twitter adventure. Since returning to Twitter he frequently purges his Twitter timeline. I do not have a record of the more recent Tweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
365<\/td>\nHalf of suckerhood is not realizing that what you don’t like might be loved by someone else (hence by you later); & the reverse.<\/td>\nFri Jul 02 16:12:09 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
364<\/td>\nMy idea is to be aggressive risk-taker in the 3 quadrants & extremely prudent in the 4th; establishment does reverse http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/LoJ\/<\/a><\/td>\nFri Jul 02 11:54:10 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
363<\/td>\nWe are satisfied with natural (or old) objects but insatiable with technologies amplifying small improvements in versions-mental treadmill<\/td>\nFri Jul 02 10:22:56 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
362<\/td>\nFor them this is a financial crisis; to me it is an intellectual crisis a crisis of civilization.<\/td>\nThu Jul 01 20:22:29 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
361<\/td>\nThe weak cannot be good.<\/td>\nThu Jul 01 18:21:36 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
360<\/td>\nMost feed their obsessions by getting rid of them.<\/td>\nThu Jul 01 17:49:47 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
359<\/td>\n7 PM Politics & Prose (DC); mostly about Plato elephants my visit to Berlin fragility of nation-states Lebanese wine StendhalHuet<\/td>\nWed Jun 30 13:20:54 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
358<\/td>\nTechnology is at its best when it is invisible.<\/td>\nWed Jun 30 12:28:15 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
357<\/td>\nPassionate hate (by nations & individuals) ends by rotation to another subject of hate; mediocrity cannot handle more than one enemy.<\/td>\nWed Jun 30 12:25:58 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
356<\/td>\nSaying nonfiction to bundle all these forms of writing (older than the novel) is like saying nonprostitute to describe a class of humans.<\/td>\nWed Jun 30 11:39:39 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
355<\/td>\nWhat we call fiction is when you look deep much less fictional than nonfiction; but it is usually less imaginative.<\/td>\nWed Jun 30 11:37:00 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
354<\/td>\nJust realized reading Stendhal that Catholic countries had more serial monogamy than today but w\/o divorce -they faced chronic widowhood .<\/td>\nWed Jun 30 10:27:14 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
353<\/td>\nNo monkey is as good-looking that the ugliest of humans no businessman worthier than the worst of the poets.<\/td>\nTue Jun 29 14:14:12 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
352<\/td>\nIf your anger decreases with time you did injustice; if it increases you suffered injustice.<\/td>\nMon Jun 28 19:41:16 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
351<\/td>\nRT @ahaspel: @nntaleb But German has a related term — Radler (cyclist) after the posture: bent back above kicking feet below.<\/td>\nMon Jun 28 18:50:54 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
350<\/td>\nEnglish does not distinguish between arrogant-up irreverence towards the temporarily powerful and arrogant-down directed at the small guy.<\/td>\nMon Jun 28 16:22:04 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
349<\/td>\nNote 131 http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/Lb9\/<\/a><\/td>\nMon Jun 28 11:26:23 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
348<\/td>\nThe person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.<\/td>\nMon Jun 28 10:22:20 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
347<\/td>\nIf you want to annoy a poet explain his poetry.<\/td>\nMon Jun 28 07:21:09 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
346<\/td>\nA large part of the Great Sucker Problem (GSP) is the central confusion between unobserved and non-existent the unproven & the erroneous.<\/td>\nSun Jun 27 14:48:32 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
345<\/td>\nIn the past most were ignorant except for 1 in 1000 refined enough to talk to. Today thx to progress literacy& media only 1 in 100000.<\/td>\nSun Jun 27 12:11:00 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
344<\/td>\nThere is a distinction between expressive hypochondria and literature just as there is one between self-help and philosophy.<\/td>\nSat Jun 26 21:02:00 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
343<\/td>\nFailure of 2nd order thinking (autism): he tells you a secret & expect you to keep it when he just gave you evidence that he can’t keep it.<\/td>\nFri Jun 25 21:26:38 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
342<\/td>\nDon’t talk abt ” progress” in terms of longevity safety or comfort before looking at zoo animals compared to those in the wildrnss.<\/td>\nFri Jun 25 12:08:11 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
341<\/td>\nMost people fear being alone without audiovisual stimulation because they are too repetitive when they think & imagine things on their own.<\/td>\nFri Jun 25 11:07:27 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
340<\/td>\nIt takes extraordinary wisdom & self control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.<\/td>\nFri Jun 25 11:03:40 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
339<\/td>\nWe now face the choice betw those who write clearly about a subject they don’t know& those who write poorly about a subject they don’t know<\/td>\nThu Jun 24 18:22:08 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
338<\/td>\n2010 600000 books in English with few memorable quotes; c. 0 AD a handful of books with loads of quotes. Information rich dark ages.<\/td>\nThu Jun 24 15:58:34 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
337<\/td>\nThey spend their lives writing and writing and manage to avoid producing a single quotable sentence.<\/td>\nThu Jun 24 14:34:13 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
336<\/td>\nThose who when discussing someone’s writings hint at the connection with “my friend X” are most probably not his friends.<\/td>\nThu Jun 24 14:26:32 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
335<\/td>\nJust as dyed hair makes older men less attractive what you do to hide your weaknesses makes them more repugnant.<\/td>\nThu Jun 24 13:55:07 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
334<\/td>\nIf someone gives you more than one reason why he wants the job don’t hire him.<\/td>\nThu Jun 24 10:53:42 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
333<\/td>\nWhen someone says “I am not that stupid” it often means that he is more stupid than he thinks.<\/td>\nWed Jun 23 21:16:22 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
332<\/td>\nTo understand the liberating effect of asceticism consider that losing all your fortune is much less painful than losing half of it.<\/td>\nWed Jun 23 17:15:26 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
331<\/td>\nI knew that businessmen had others write books for them; turns out they also have others read (& summarize) books for them.<\/td>\nWed Jun 23 09:26:32 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
330<\/td>\nWe talk about romantic love not its inescapable and far more interesting mutation romantic hate.<\/td>\nTue Jun 22 20:23:19 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
329<\/td>\nA verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.<\/td>\nTue Jun 22 18:49:52 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
328<\/td>\nMost of the so-called writers keep writing & writing with the hope to some day find something to say.<\/td>\nTue Jun 22 07:54:19 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
327<\/td>\nFor so many instead of looking for “cause of death” when they expire we should be looking for “cause of life” when they are still around.<\/td>\nMon Jun 21 20:41:25 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
326<\/td>\nDon’t complain too loud about wrongs done you you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.<\/td>\nMon Jun 21 12:08:37 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
325<\/td>\n2- Beauty is enhanced by unashamed irregularities; greatness by a facade of blunder.<\/td>\nSun Jun 20 23:39:04 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
324<\/td>\nIt’s much harder to write a review for a book you’ve read than for a book you haven’t read.<\/td>\nSun Jun 20 13:17:40 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
323<\/td>\nThe best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.<\/td>\nSun Jun 20 13:04:04 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
322<\/td>\n1- We love imperfection the right kind of imperfection; we pay up for original art & typo-laden 1st editions.<\/td>\nSat Jun 19 16:47:33 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
321<\/td>\nThe magnificent believes half what he hears and twice what he says.<\/td>\nSat Jun 19 12:56:36 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
320<\/td>\nQuite revealing of human preferences that more suicides come from shame or loss of financial & social status than acute health problems.<\/td>\nFri Jun 18 20:04:21 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
319<\/td>\nThe deeper the river the less noise it makes (Amioun proverb).<\/td>\nFri Jun 18 17:48:51 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
318<\/td>\nAt lunch (French restrnt) they ate the salmon & removed the skin;at dinner (sushi) they ate the skin & removed the salmon. Domain dependence<\/td>\nFri Jun 18 11:55:27 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
317<\/td>\nEngineers can compute but not define mathematicians can define but not compute economists can neither compute nor define.<\/td>\nFri Jun 18 11:50:04 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
316<\/td>\nMy central idea: The rationalist wants an imbecile-free world the empiricist an imbecile-proof one. (Or better a rationalist-proof one).<\/td>\nFri Jun 18 11:37:35 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
315<\/td>\n@City_Poems Reverse arrow: in Q&A People asked if I take my ideas into practice no-one ever asked if I got my ideas from practice #GAIM10<\/td>\nWed Jun 16 15:33:21 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
314<\/td>\nSociety needs prudent leaders and risk-taking error-prone followers; we got the opposite.<\/td>\nTue Jun 15 15:54:11 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
313<\/td>\nMany of those said to be unbribable are just too expensive.<\/td>\nTue Jun 15 13:12:08 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
312<\/td>\nMany are so unoriginal they need to study history to find mistakes to repeat.<\/td>\nMon Jun 14 15:00:28 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
311<\/td>\nBeing unimaginative is only a problem for those who get bored easily.<\/td>\nMon Jun 14 14:42:22 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
310<\/td>\nI’ve always wondered if one could be fit and healthy without boring others with talk ofdiet health & fitness.<\/td>\nMon Jun 14 12:13:11 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
309<\/td>\nA mathematician starts with a problem and creates a solution; a consultant starts with a “solution” and create s a problem.<\/td>\nSat Jun 12 18:38:47 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
308<\/td>\nTechnology can degrade every single aspect of a sucker’s life while convincing him that it is becoming more “efficient”.<\/td>\nSat Jun 12 18:34:58 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
307<\/td>\nThe opposite of manliness isn’t effeminacy; it’s technology.<\/td>\nSat Jun 12 18:18:57 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
306<\/td>\nIf you can identify a single reason why you and someone are friends you are not friends.<\/td>\nSat Jun 12 14:01:23 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
305<\/td>\nAn educated sucker is the best sucker. (Fat Tony)<\/td>\nSat Jun 12 11:05:54 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
304<\/td>\nFor most success is the harmful passage from the camp of the hating to the camp of the hated.<\/td>\nWed Jun 09 20:25:06 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
303<\/td>\nFate is at its cruelest when a finance person ends up poor.<\/td>\nTue Jun 08 17:19:29 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
302<\/td>\nThere are designations like “economist” “prostitute” or “consultant” for which additional characterization does n’t add information.<\/td>\nMon Jun 07 11:37:55 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
301<\/td>\nFor a writerthe distance between enthusiastic fan & rabid detractor is as short as 2 or 3 unanswered letters; jst the perception of a snub.<\/td>\nSun Jun 06 22:19:26 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
300<\/td>\nFor most work & what comes with it have the eroding effect of chronic injury. [rev’d]<\/td>\nSun Jun 06 12:31:15 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
299<\/td>\nHalf the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears. [rev’d]<\/td>\nSun Jun 06 12:28:49 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
298<\/td>\nIt is harder to say no when you really mean it than when you don’t.<\/td>\nSat Jun 05 22:14:19 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
297<\/td>\nFor the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philopsphcal insight<\/td>\nSat Jun 05 21:59:38 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
296<\/td>\nThe tragedy is that much of what you think is random is in your control and what’s worse the opposite.<\/td>\nSat Jun 05 21:53:20 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
295<\/td>\nFor most work & what come with it have the eroding effect of chronic injury.<\/td>\nSat Jun 05 19:32:27 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
294<\/td>\nDixeris maledicta cuncta cum hominem ingratum dixeris. [Once you’ve called someone ingrate no need to say more – Publilius the Syrian].<\/td>\nSat Jun 05 18:20:33 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
293<\/td>\nHalf the people lie with their tongues; the other half lie with their tears.<\/td>\nSat Jun 05 18:11:03 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
292<\/td>\nRadio Open Source Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Crisis is Just Begun: www1.tour.ne.jp\/…<\/a><\/td>\nFri Jun 04 21:27:55 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
291<\/td>\n…and you can be certain that a person has neither means nor will to help you when he says ‘I am here to help”.<\/td>\nThu Jun 03 13:09:09 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
290<\/td>\nYou can be certain that a person has the means but not the will to help you when he says “there is nothing else I can do”.<\/td>\nThu Jun 03 11:15:34 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
289<\/td>\nThe English have Mediterranean weather at random times; but they go to Spain because their free hours are deterministic & rigid. [Hay Fest]<\/td>\nWed Jun 02 11:24:58 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
288<\/td>\nPreoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic noble elegant or heroic life.<\/td>\nTue Jun 01 16:52:00 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
287<\/td>\nWhen conflicted between two mutually exclusive choices take neither. If you can.<\/td>\nTue Jun 01 13:04:53 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
286<\/td>\nWhatever you see around that is not perishable can be expected to be in the middle of its lifespan BACKUP http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/JZ0\/<\/a><\/td>\nTue Jun 01 10:44:48 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
285<\/td>\nThe main disadvantage of being a writer is that there is nothing you can say or do that can get you in trouble. [Hay Festival Wales]<\/td>\nMon May 31 19:09:04 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
284<\/td>\nPharmaceutical companies are better at inventing diseases to match existing drugs than inventing drugs to match existing diseases.<\/td>\nSat May 29 12:53:02 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
283<\/td>\nThe weak shows off his strength hides his defects; the magnificent exhibits his defects like ornaments. [Robustness]<\/td>\nFri May 28 16:05:19 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
282<\/td>\nCorollary: whatever you see around that is not perishable can be expected to be in the middle of its lifespan: books companies species<\/td>\nFri May 28 08:02:52 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
281<\/td>\nThe best predictor of whether a technology will be used in 10 years is if it has been in use for 10 years. (Beware: is a noisy predictor)<\/td>\nFri May 28 07:52:21 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
280<\/td>\nIn Proust’s Morel demonizes Nissim Bernard a Jew who lent him money; & becomes anti-Semitic just to escape the feeling of gratitude<\/td>\nThu May 27 18:09:56 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
279<\/td>\nIn Proust’s Morel demonizes Nissim Bernard a Jew who lent him money; & becomes anti-Semitic just to escape the feeling of gratitude.<\/td>\nThu May 27 17:58:27 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
278<\/td>\nFortune punishes the greedy by making him poor & the very greedy by making him rich.<\/td>\nThu May 27 12:49:07 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
277<\/td>\nIn nature whatever is functional is elegant; in modern life the opposite.<\/td>\nWed May 26 16:39:30 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
276<\/td>\nA friendship that ends was never one; there was at least one sucker in it.<\/td>\nWed May 26 15:47:38 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
275<\/td>\nIn poor countries regulators receive explicit bribes; in DC they get sophisticated implicit unspoken promises to work for Corporations.<\/td>\nTue May 25 19:38:19 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
274<\/td>\nWhen expressing “good luck” to a peer the weak wishes the opposite the strong is mildly indifferent; but only the magnificent means it.<\/td>\nTue May 25 19:22:13 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
273<\/td>\nThe weak regrets his words more than his silence; the strong regrets his silence more than his words; the magnificent regrets nothing.<\/td>\nTue May 25 17:59:14 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
272<\/td>\nWhen he\/she shouts that what you did was impardonable he\/she has already started to pardon you.<\/td>\nTue May 25 14:49:55 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
271<\/td>\n(For Orthodox (Palamas) & Algazel (3rd cat) attempts to define God using Greek philos universals (2nd cat) was a Western-Averroan mistake).<\/td>\nTue May 25 13:34:47 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
270<\/td>\nMathematically there are things we can define & compute things we can define but not compute & things we can neither define nor compute.<\/td>\nTue May 25 12:56:36 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
269<\/td>\nSaying “the mathematics of uncertainty” is like saying “the chastity of sex” -what is mathematized is no longe r uncertain & vice versa.<\/td>\nTue May 25 12:51:32 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
268<\/td>\nA scientist talking about uncertainty incompleteness unknowledge & ignorance is like a psychopath talking about compassion.<\/td>\nTue May 25 11:41:40 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
267<\/td>\n@ahaspel You shd not be put in a position to ax that question…<\/td>\nTue May 25 01:43:15 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
266<\/td>\nRe Venter: a nuclear accident remains relatively local and nonscalable a biological one w\/ “replicator” will be global.I don’t want this!<\/td>\nMon May 24 17:22:05 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
265<\/td>\n2- Mother Nature proved to be vastly smarter than biologists just as the economy proved to be vastly smarter than economists.<\/td>\nMon May 24 13:43:48 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
264<\/td>\n1-Re Venter; In brief natural evolution is robust & takes place across ecosystem; manmade evolution is fragile & disrupts unpredictably.<\/td>\nMon May 24 13:36:10 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
263<\/td>\nWill talk about literatureVenter’s playing G.d & will be heckled by detractors tonite 7 PM B&N Union Sq in NY http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/Jtl\/<\/a><\/td>\nMon May 24 11:29:46 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
262<\/td>\nVenter’s attempt: an insult to G..d; but also an insult to evolution; http:\/\/www.edge.org\/#taleb<\/a><\/td>\nMon May 24 11:01:56 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
261<\/td>\n2- As a good filter of noise ask yourself before you read anything whether it will be still be in print in one ten & fifty years…<\/td>\nSun May 23 20:19:45 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
260<\/td>\n1-Some write books without anything quotable (profs journos etc.); others inexhaustible (Plato Wittgnst Cicero Mutanabbi Nietzsche..)<\/td>\nSun May 23 19:28:06 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
259<\/td>\nWisdom in the young is as unattractive as frivolity in the elderly.<\/td>\nSun May 23 17:50:56 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
258<\/td>\nLesser men rarely compliment when they really mean it.<\/td>\nSun May 23 17:12:58 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
257<\/td>\nIt is a good practice to always apologize except when you have done something wrong<\/td>\nSun May 23 15:36:50 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
256<\/td>\nThe philosopher Demonax stopped a Spartan from beating his servant. “You are making him your equal” he said. [in Lucian of Samosata]<\/td>\nSun May 23 15:22:48 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
255<\/td>\nBy praising someone for his lack of defects you are also implying his lack of virtues.<\/td>\nSun May 23 12:56:34 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
254<\/td>\nYou can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.<\/td>\nSat May 22 22:15:01 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
253<\/td>\n2- In real life you don’t know who really won or who really lost (except too late); but you can tell who is heroic and who is not.<\/td>\nSat May 22 13:27:49 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
252<\/td>\nGames were created to give nonheroes the illusion of winning. (Gen ludic fallacy)<\/td>\nSat May 22 12:58:31 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
251<\/td>\nWith terminal disease nature lets you die with quick suffering; medicine lets you suffer with prolonged dying. (revised)<\/td>\nSat May 22 09:01:14 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
250<\/td>\nWith terminal disease nature lets you die without suffering; medicine lets you suffer without dying.<\/td>\nFri May 21 22:51:26 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
249<\/td>\nThe only definition of an alpha male: if you try to be an alpha male you will never be one.<\/td>\nFri May 21 18:01:34 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
248<\/td>\nI will be heckled and bled to death by journalists & various detractors Monday 7 PM at the B&N Union Store in NY http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/Jtl\/<\/td>\nFri May 21 13:16:22 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
247<\/td>\nSome half-men (usually finance people) are so unfit for success that when they make it they look like dwarves dressed in giants’ clothes.<\/td>\nFri May 21 11:58:21 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
246<\/td>\n@TheStalwart @FelixSalmon Can you heckle me at the B&N Union Sq Monday Lecture? I never get tough questions.<\/td>\nThu May 20 21:57:40 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
245<\/td>\nThe curious mind embraces science; the gifted & sensitive the arts; the practical business; the leftover becomes an economist.<\/td>\nThu May 20 21:13:18 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
244<\/td>\n@TheStalwart You forget the origin of wine &lt;-Uinum &lt;- phoenician Yayn from Bekaa Valley. 6000 years uninterrupted<\/td>\nThu May 20 17:26:46 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
243<\/td>\nEnding media torture prematurely as book zoomed to the NYT bestseller lst. May still lecture but no swans just aphorisms & Lebanese wine.<\/td>\nThu May 20 17:14:38 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
242<\/td>\nIt takes a lot of intellect & confidence to accept that what makes sense doesn’t really make sense.<\/td>\nThu May 20 16:09:29 +0000 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
241<\/td>\nPeople tend to fake indifference or extreme love; never hate.<\/td>\nWed May 19 22:42:36 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
240<\/td>\n@tom_peters That’s substractive epistemology: knowledge of what does not work is more ROBUST to representational error\/ randomness.<\/td>\nWed May 19 19:06:46 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
239<\/td>\nPeople focus on role models; it is more effective to find anti-models people you don’t want to be like when you grow up.<\/td>\nWed May 19 18:55:31 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
238<\/td>\nIf my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.<\/td>\nWed May 19 17:48:13 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
237<\/td>\nThinkers & artists care the most about the few who love them; politicians & vulgar professionals care the most about the few who hate them.<\/td>\nWed May 19 13:25:55 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
236<\/td>\nThere is nothing I’ve learned & still remember that I did not learn by myself; & nothing they tried to teach me that ended up sticking.<\/td>\nWed May 19 10:38:12 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
235<\/td>\nSkills that transfer: street fights off-path hiking seduction broad erudition. Skills that don’t: school gamessports- what’s organized<\/td>\nTue May 18 22:14:37 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
234<\/td>\n2- You exist if & only if your conversation (or writings) cannot be reconstructed w\/clips from other conversations having taken place.<\/td>\nTue May 18 19:25:41 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
233<\/td>\n1- A businessman’s conversation can be entirely reconstructed w\/clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.<\/td>\nTue May 18 19:20:50 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
232<\/td>\nEvidence that the ancient Levantines valued the virtue of “megalopsychia” or \u00d8\u00b4\u00d9\u2021\u00d9\u2026 before Christian era http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/Jih\/<\/a><\/td>\nTue May 18 15:23:14 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
231<\/td>\nYour reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.<\/td>\nTue May 18 12:11:35 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
230<\/td>\nMandelbrot’s genius is in achieving aesthetic simplicity without having recourse to smoothness; producing harmony in highly jagged surfaces<\/td>\nTue May 18 10:29:58 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
229<\/td>\n(For those who still don’t get the point sports skills don’t transfer outside the narrow domain)<\/td>\nMon May 17 22:08:37 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
228<\/td>\n(expl: free and wise humans don’t compete on a metric – genralized ludic fallacy).<\/td>\nMon May 17 13:34:59 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
227<\/td>\nCompetitive athletes are inferior to both humans and animals unless faster than a cheetah or stronger than a bull.<\/td>\nMon May 17 13:13:53 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
226<\/td>\nWit signals intelligence stripped of nerdiness.<\/td>\nMon May 17 13:06:45 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
225<\/td>\nCatalogue raisonn\u00c3\u00a9 (in progress) http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/JcO\/<\/a><\/td>\nMon May 17 10:35:05 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
224<\/td>\nIn classical renderings of prominent figures males are lean & females are plump; in modern photographs the opposite.<\/td>\nSun May 16 18:17:33 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
223<\/td>\nThe difference between magnificence & arrogance is in what one does when nobody is looking.<\/td>\nSun May 16 11:35:41 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
222<\/td>\nGreatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.<\/td>\nSun May 16 10:59:12 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
221<\/td>\nWhen individuals go bust their debt don’t transfer to their children; when states do even the unborn is liable. Deficits are immoral.<\/td>\nSun May 16 10:46:38 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
220<\/td>\nThe classical man’s worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man’s worst fear is just death. [corrected thx]<\/td>\nSat May 15 19:07:50 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
219<\/td>\nIn much of our history only few men but almost all women were able to procreate. Equality is more natural to women than men.<\/td>\nSat May 15 18:34:44 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
218<\/td>\nYou may outlive your strength; never your wisdom.<\/td>\nSat May 15 18:24:14 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
217<\/td>\nWhen a woman says “intelligent” about a man she also means handsome; when a man says “dumb” about a woman he also means pretty.<\/td>\nFri May 14 19:43:16 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
216<\/td>\nBusinessBookReaders with my prose are like deaf persons in a Puccini opera: they may like a thing or two while wondering “what’s the point?”<\/td>\nFri May 14 13:01:37 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
215<\/td>\nThe characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan mankind’s flaws biases & irrationality –without exploiting them for fun and profit.<\/td>\nFri May 14 12:16:07 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
214<\/td>\n(cmmtry: This government deficit thing shows how people individually ethical can be turned collectively into unethical monsters. Shame.)<\/td>\nFri May 14 10:53:37 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
213<\/td>\nStimulus w\/ deficit even if effective is as immoral as borrowing from your grandchildren (without asking them) to repay your gambling debt<\/td>\nFri May 14 10:47:37 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
212<\/td>\nPromising someone good luck as return for good deeds sounds like a bribe; perhaps the remnant of archaic pre-deontic pre-classical morality<\/td>\nFri May 14 10:17:55 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
211<\/td>\nWas on Bloomberg TV –impressed: vastly more professional than competitors; better thoughtful staff even the make-up was superior.<\/td>\nThu May 13 13:58:18 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
210<\/td>\nDeficits are similar to carbs: the more you eat the hungrier you get.<\/td>\nThu May 13 12:45:11 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
209<\/td>\n…and worsens with the replacement of memories with other memories.<\/td>\nWed May 12 15:59:45 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
208<\/td>\nDecline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories; & reverses with the replacement of dreams with other dreams.<\/td>\nWed May 12 14:24:49 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
207<\/td>\n(comment: your brain is most active when you make it completely free -as in the shower).<\/td>\nWed May 12 13:04:37 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
206<\/td>\nYou will be civilized the day you can spend time doing nothing learning nothing & improving nothing without feeling slightest guilt.<\/td>\nWed May 12 11:34:54 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
205<\/td>\nReal philosophers require only long walks to figure out what mere people need crises accidents serial bailouts & calamities to understand<\/td>\nTue May 11 10:59:04 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
204<\/td>\nDetecting dullness is best skill: Some pursuits like piracy are dull from inside (most of the time) though glamorous from the outside.<\/td>\nMon May 10 21:57:27 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
203<\/td>\nSlaves (in Roman and Ottoman days) unlike today’s employees did not need to flatter their boss.<\/td>\nMon May 10 19:58:58 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
202<\/td>\nPublic companies like human cells are programmed for apoptosis suicide through hidden risks. Bailouts make the process more entertaining.<\/td>\nMon May 10 19:53:35 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
201<\/td>\nYou have a real life if & only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.<\/td>\nMon May 10 09:48:23 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
200<\/td>\nThe difference between technology & slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free. (Generalized Sucker Problem)<\/td>\nSun May 09 11:56:59 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
199<\/td>\nIt is as difficult to avoid bugging others with advice on how to exercise as it is to stick to an exercise schedule.<\/td>\nSat May 08 12:05:33 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
198<\/td>\nSubstractive epistemology: the sucker thinks Truth is search for knowlege; the nonsucker knows Truth is search for ignorance.<\/td>\nThu May 06 20:26:44 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
197<\/td>\nFor company you tend to prefer those who find you interesting over those you find interesting.<\/td>\nThu May 06 08:41:28 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
196<\/td>\nRobustness & Fragility: For the robust an error is information; for the fragile an error is an error.<\/td>\nWed May 05 16:22:07 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
195<\/td>\nThe main difference between gov. bailouts and smoking is that in some rare cases the statement “this is my last cigarette” holds true.<\/td>\nWed May 05 06:06:55 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
194<\/td>\nLove & happiness: Those who talk about love tend to be in love; but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.<\/td>\nMon May 03 19:26:21 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
193<\/td>\nYou have a real life when most of what you fear has the titillating prospect of adventure.<\/td>\nSun May 02 18:28:17 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
192<\/td>\nThe only objective definition of aging is when a person starts to discuss aging.<\/td>\nSat May 01 15:23:00 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
191<\/td>\n@RealJeffMurdock. Just hit “like” button<\/td>\nThu Apr 29 22:14:45 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
190<\/td>\nExperimenting with 2-way dialogue on http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/IgP\/<\/a><\/td>\nThu Apr 29 17:30:19 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
189<\/td>\nYou are only secure if you can lose your fortune without the added worse insult of having to become humble. (My great-g-g-grandfather’s rule<\/td>\nThu Apr 29 13:54:53 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
188<\/td>\nWhat would you rather be; intellectually humble but perceived as arrogant or intellectually arrogant but perceived as humble?<\/td>\nWed Apr 28 23:12:28 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
187<\/td>\n[comm: Nothing wrong w\/book as peacock tail signaling of superiority & ego trip;it’s the commercial agenda outside the bk that corrupts it]<\/td>\nWed Apr 28 22:34:25 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
186<\/td>\n[comm: after a long media diet I realize that there is nothing that’s not (clumsily) trying to sell you something. I only trust my library]<\/td>\nWed Apr 28 22:00:24 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
185<\/td>\nThe book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane: everything else on your eyelids manipulates you with an ad.<\/td>\nWed Apr 28 21:43:54 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
184<\/td>\n(commentary: efforts at building social political and medical utopias have caused nightmares; many cures & techn came frm martial efforts)<\/td>\nWed Apr 28 11:52:14 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
183<\/td>\nThe worst damage has been caused by competent people trying to do good;the best welfare has been brought by incompetent ones trying to harm.<\/td>\nWed Apr 28 11:41:01 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
182<\/td>\nSocial media are antisocial health foods are empirically unhealthy knowledge workers are ignorant & social sciences aren’t scientific<\/td>\nTue Apr 27 18:38:11 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
181<\/td>\n…and with businessbooks I skip both the text & the footnotes.<\/td>\nTue Apr 27 13:52:28 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
180<\/td>\nWith regular books I read the text & skip the footnotes; with those written by academics I read the footnotes & skip the text.<\/td>\nTue Apr 27 09:45:46 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
179<\/td>\nI lost my moleskine-style notebook with 60 unpublished aphorisms on Lufthansa Dusseldorf-Newark Friday. I don’t know if it is good or bad.<\/td>\nTue Apr 27 00:12:23 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
178<\/td>\nThere are two types of people; those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same. (Wisdom of Fat Tony)<\/td>\nMon Apr 26 18:23:20 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
177<\/td>\nYou are guaranteed a repetition when you hear the declaration “never again”.<\/td>\nSun Apr 25 23:43:55 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
176<\/td>\nWhen someone starts a sentence with “simply” you should expect to hear something very complicated.<\/td>\nSun Apr 25 20:49:39 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
175<\/td>\nNothing is more permanent than “temporary” arrangements deficits truces& relationships;& nothing is more temporary than “permanent” ones.<\/td>\nSun Apr 25 20:07:04 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
174<\/td>\nPeople usually apologize so they can do it again.<\/td>\nSun Apr 25 13:26:33 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
173<\/td>\nThose who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.<\/td>\nSun Apr 25 11:04:45 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
172<\/td>\nJust like poets and artists bureaucrats are born not made; it takes normal humans extraordinary effort to keep attention on such tasks<\/td>\nSat Apr 24 21:46:04 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
171<\/td>\nAn AntiPlatonist finding new treasures in Plato note 128 http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/HWI\/<\/a><\/td>\nSat Apr 24 13:35:10 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
170<\/td>\n(cont) …filmmakers to impress other filmmakers painters to impress art dealers; but authors who write to impress book editors fail!<\/td>\nFri Apr 23 22:05:30 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
169<\/td>\nCosts of specialization:Architects build to impress othr archtcts;models are thin to impress othr models;academics to impress othr acdmcs…<\/td>\nFri Apr 23 19:50:34 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
168<\/td>\n@Erwan_Le_Corre Just as smooth surfaces comptve sports and specializd. work fossilize the mind-body compttve academia fossilizes the soul<\/td>\nFri Apr 23 09:41:27 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
167<\/td>\n@yzilber There is no strictly “rational” definition of “rationality” which is why I cringe when I hear the word used by social scientists.<\/td>\nFri Apr 23 08:58:32 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
166<\/td>\n@yzilber Compliance with the straightjacket of narrow (Aristotelian) logic & avoidance of fatal inconsistencies are not the same thing.<\/td>\nFri Apr 23 08:48:10 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
165<\/td>\nAttendd a symposium named after a drinking party in whch nonnerds talked abt love; alas no drinking but mercifully nobody talked abt love<\/td>\nFri Apr 23 06:24:22 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
164<\/td>\nThe most painful moments are not those spent with uninteresting people; it is with uninteresting people trying to be interesting.<\/td>\nThu Apr 22 16:24:13 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
163<\/td>\nAnother Fat Tony sucker problem:It is as difficult to change someone’s opinions as it is to change his tastes.<\/td>\nThu Apr 22 15:55:22 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
162<\/td>\nErwan Le Corre the most “naturally fit” man on the planet Note 127 http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/HIs\/<\/a><\/td>\nWed Apr 21 14:29:23 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
161<\/td>\nHatred is much harder to fake than love. You hear of fake love; never of fake hate.<\/td>\nWed Apr 21 00:36:21 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
160<\/td>\nHatred is much harder to fake than love.<\/td>\nTue Apr 20 20:42:17 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
159<\/td>\nTo value a person is consider the difference between how impressive he\/she was at the first encounter & at the most recent one.<\/td>\nTue Apr 20 16:42:25 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
158<\/td>\nUpon arriving to the hotel the fellow had a porter carry his luggage; I later saw him lifting weights in the gym. (Generalized Ludic fallacy<\/td>\nTue Apr 20 13:03:27 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
157<\/td>\nIt seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice particularly for writing and financial matters.<\/td>\nTue Apr 20 12:27:39 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
156<\/td>\nThe sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know rather than the reverse.<\/td>\nTue Apr 20 12:12:47 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
155<\/td>\nReal mathematicians understand completeness; real philosophers understand incompleteness; the rest don’t really understand anything<\/td>\nTue Apr 20 00:24:42 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
154<\/td>\n(How? errors in SPACE prgrm are Gaussian;errors in fields that matter are Black-Gray-Swannish; govts hve exhstd the Gaussian domains).Sorry<\/td>\nMon Apr 19 22:55:18 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
153<\/td>\nSadly Obama talking ab going to Moon\/Mars (linear domain) when we know nothing abt the complex (volcanos econ climate).SPACE builds hubris<\/td>\nMon Apr 19 22:26:56 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
152<\/td>\nYou can be certain that the CEO of a corp has a lot to worry about when he announces publicly that “there is nothing to worry about”.<\/td>\nMon Apr 19 13:09:00 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
151<\/td>\n3-Corrol: Same with happiness; we don’t know what it means how to reach it but we know extremely well how to avoid unhappiness.<\/td>\nMon Apr 19 00:18:25 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
150<\/td>\nThe most depressing thing about couples arguing in a restaurant is that they are almost always unaware of the true subject of argument.<\/td>\nSun Apr 18 22:46:13 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
149<\/td>\n2-Corollary: The best way to spot a charlatan: someone who tells you what to do instead of what NOT to do. (Stockbrokers Consultants…)<\/td>\nSun Apr 18 22:05:41 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
148<\/td>\n1- Knowledge is subtractive not additive; what we subtract (reduction by what does not work what NOT to do) not what we add (what to do)<\/td>\nSun Apr 18 22:03:36 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
147<\/td>\nThe best test of robustness to reputational damage is your emotional state (fear joy boredom) when you get an email from a journalist.(GS)<\/td>\nSun Apr 18 14:55:25 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
146<\/td>\nYou can only convince those persons who can benefit from being convinced.<\/td>\nSun Apr 18 14:41:26 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
145<\/td>\nPeople used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse. [Sacred & Profane]<\/td>\nSun Apr 18 13:25:23 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
144<\/td>\n2- If you know in the morning what your day looks like with any precision you are a little bit dead -the more precision the more dead.<\/td>\nSun Apr 18 13:00:28 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
143<\/td>\n(answr) Not rewarmed Rousseau rather to borrow the expr. putting back Plato on his feet (he stand on his head)& systematzng Nietzsche<\/td>\nSat Apr 17 20:13:30 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
142<\/td>\n@johndurant @Erwan_Le_Corre 2- If you know in the morning what your day looks like with any precision you are a little bit dead.<\/td>\nSat Apr 17 12:19:00 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
141<\/td>\n1- We are Paleo hunters; only truly ALIVE in these moments when we improvise; no schedule just small surprises & stimuli frm envrmnt.<\/td>\nSat Apr 17 12:14:48 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
140<\/td>\nBadmouthing is the only genuine expression of admiration.<\/td>\nFri Apr 16 14:48:51 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
139<\/td>\nThe test of whether you really liked a book is if you reread it –the rest is spin -UPDATED http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/Hkd\/<\/a><\/td>\nThu Apr 15 21:09:37 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
138<\/td>\nThere is no intermediate state between ice & water but there one is between life & death: employment.<\/td>\nThu Apr 15 20:15:03 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
137<\/td>\nI trust people who make a living lying down or standing up more than those who do so sitting down. (From a flaneur who reads in bed (revisd)<\/td>\nThu Apr 15 19:31:29 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
136<\/td>\nThe opposite of enemy is a dull life.<\/td>\nThu Apr 15 18:12:25 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
135<\/td>\nPeople often need to suspend their self-promotion; someone in their lives they do not need to impress. This explains dog ownership.<\/td>\nThu Apr 15 11:16:35 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
134<\/td>\n@drebesd no Nietzsche while great stylist did not have Plato’s clarity & systematizing mind; NOBODY Anti-Platonist comes close to Plato<\/td>\nWed Apr 14 20:21:14 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
133<\/td>\nHatred is love with a typo somewhere in the computer code correctable but very hard to find.<\/td>\nWed Apr 14 19:45:25 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
132<\/td>\nIn 2500 y no human came w\/ the brilliance depth elegance wit& imagination matching Plato to displace him & protect us from Pl legacy.<\/td>\nWed Apr 14 19:03:10 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
131<\/td>\n@tom_peters I agree; it is harmless to entertain philistines who would otherwise be into sports econ books have caused harm.<\/td>\nWed Apr 14 11:51:36 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
130<\/td>\nBiz books: a category invntd by bookstores for writngs that have no depth no style no empirical rigor & no linguistic sophistication<\/td>\nWed Apr 14 10:53:05 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
129<\/td>\nThe economy in brief: they are calmly waiting in line to be slaughtered while thinking it is for a Broadway show.<\/td>\nTue Apr 13 18:40:53 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
128<\/td>\nHard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a (cont) twitlonger.com\/…<\/a><\/td>\nMon Apr 12 14:36:47 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
127<\/td>\nTechnology’s double punishment is to make us both age prematurely and live longer.<\/td>\nMon Apr 12 11:26:30 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
126<\/td>\nYou can replace lies with truth; but myth is only displaced with a narrative.<\/td>\nSun Apr 11 17:19:50 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
125<\/td>\nThey agree that chess training only improves chess skills but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills.<\/td>\nSun Apr 11 15:59:59 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
124<\/td>\nNever rid someone of an illusion unless you can replace it in his mind with another illusion.<\/td>\nSun Apr 11 11:43:16 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
123<\/td>\n(Cont) The beauty of conscious ignorance if you can practice it is that it makes things infinite.<\/td>\nSat Apr 10 21:45:33 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
122<\/td>\n@blackswanreport Thanks; I gave them a bland 15 min summary of my old problemabsolutely nothing new.<\/td>\nSat Apr 10 21:44:15 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
121<\/td>\nSomething finite but with unknown upper bound is epistemically equivalent to something infinite. I call this epistemic Infinity.<\/td>\nSat Apr 10 21:42:11 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
120<\/td>\nTo be a philosopher is to know by reasoning and reasoning only what others can only learn from their mistakes.<\/td>\nFri Apr 09 19:17:45 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
119<\/td>\nFor everything I use boredom in place of a clock as a biological wristwatch under constraints of politeness.<\/td>\nFri Apr 09 16:20:05 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
118<\/td>\nYou are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.<\/td>\nFri Apr 09 13:37:01 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
117<\/td>\nI wonder if crooks can conceive that honest people can be shrewder than them.<\/td>\nFri Apr 09 11:00:00 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
116<\/td>\nNote 122 in the notebook http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/GOE\/<\/a><\/td>\nFri Apr 09 00:21:12 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
115<\/td>\n(Cont) An individual has a conscience feels shame & honor. The collective (institutions) does not aggregate them -despicable bureaucrats.<\/td>\nThu Apr 08 13:01:37 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
114<\/td>\nInstitutions can’t have the same virtues (honor truthfulness courage loyalty tenacity generosity) as individuals. It makes us fragile.<\/td>\nThu Apr 08 12:23:10 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
113<\/td>\nWhat makes us fragile is that institutions cannot have the same virtues (honor truthfulness courage loyalty tenacity) as individuals.<\/td>\nThu Apr 08 12:16:26 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
112<\/td>\nI trust everyone except those who tell me they are trustworthy.<\/td>\nWed Apr 07 21:03:45 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
111<\/td>\nTechnology is the unrelenting mollification of man that self-inflicted injury…<\/td>\nWed Apr 07 13:44:06 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
110<\/td>\nHelp! Help! I have to concentrate all my problems in one slogan –and 15 minutes Need suggstions. Thanks followers http:\/\/TwitPWR.com\/GEf\/<\/a><\/td>\nTue Apr 06 19:34:20 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
109<\/td>\nA genius is someone with flaws harder to imitate than his qualities.<\/td>\nTue Apr 06 14:32:30 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
108<\/td>\nIt is easier to disguise ignorance than knowledge.<\/td>\nTue Apr 06 13:07:51 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
107<\/td>\nIt is the appearance of inconsistency& not its absence that makes people attractive. [why they put Socrates to death]<\/td>\nSun Apr 04 18:50:05 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
106<\/td>\nIt is the appearance of inconsistency& not its absence that makes people attractive.<\/td>\nSun Apr 04 17:19:16 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
105<\/td>\nSome reticent people use silence to conceal their intelligence; but most do so to hide the lack of it. (Revised)<\/td>\nSun Apr 04 14:39:20 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
104<\/td>\nSome reserved people use silence to hide their intelligence; but most do so to conceal the lack of it.<\/td>\nSun Apr 04 13:45:54 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
103<\/td>\nUsually what we call “good listener” is someone with skillfully polished indifference.<\/td>\nSat Apr 03 15:50:01 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
102<\/td>\nThe three most harmful addictions are heroin carbohydrates and a monthly salary.<\/td>\nFri Apr 02 17:45:51 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
101<\/td>\nBefore checking the news today check how much the 400-700 hours of nongossip media exposure in 2007 helped you make sense of 2008 etc.<\/td>\nFri Apr 02 12:24:17 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
100<\/td>\nPlatonic minds expect life to be like film w defined endings.APlatonic ones expect film to be life & except fr death distrust all ending<\/td>\nThu Apr 01 23:47:23 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
99<\/td>\nThe opposite of success isn’t failure it is name dropping. (There are no obj definitions of failure & success there are for …)<\/td>\nThu Apr 01 19:35:37 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
98<\/td>\nMost of what they call humility is successfully disguised arrogance.<\/td>\nThu Apr 01 15:40:32 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
97<\/td>\nThe tragedy of virtue is that the more boring unoriginal and sermonizing the proverb\/tweet the harder it is to implement.<\/td>\nWed Mar 31 14:29:36 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
96<\/td>\nTo see if you like where you live: check if you are as happy returning as you were leaving. Also applies to work\/relationships…<\/td>\nWed Mar 31 14:04:17 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
95<\/td>\nMy problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds. [OPACITY]<\/td>\nWed Mar 31 00:28:50 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
94<\/td>\nMathematics is to knowledge what an artificial hand is to the real one. Do not amputate to replace.<\/td>\nTue Mar 30 21:53:52 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
93<\/td>\nPomponius Atticus severely ill tried the Stoic way to take his own life. Having chosen starvation he was cured of his illness.<\/td>\nTue Mar 30 11:01:43 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
92<\/td>\nPure generosity is when you help the ingrate. Every other form is self-serving [Cont:genrosity\/Kantian ethics]<\/td>\nMon Mar 29 14:50:33 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
91<\/td>\nFor the ancients forecasting historical events was an insult to the God(s); for me it is an insult to science.<\/td>\nMon Mar 29 13:24:09 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
90<\/td>\nA maxim\/tweet allows me to have the last word without even starting a conversation.<\/td>\nSun Mar 28 21:42:42 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
89<\/td>\nSince Cato the 1st sign of aging is when one starts blaming the new generatn for “shallowness” & praising the previous one for its “values”<\/td>\nSun Mar 28 21:38:18 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
88<\/td>\nNo author should be considered as having failed until he starts writing about writing.<\/td>\nSun Mar 28 15:29:41 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
87<\/td>\nThe tragedy of the information age is that the toxicity of data increases much faster than its benefits. Worse (cont) twitlonger.com\/…<\/a><\/td>\nSun Mar 28 13:10:01 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
86<\/td>\nUnrequited hate is vastly more diminishing for the self than unrequited love. You can’t react by demonizing.<\/td>\nSat Mar 27 18:29:23 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
85<\/td>\nI may forgive someone for harming me; I can’t possibly forgive anyone for boring me.<\/td>\nSat Mar 27 18:08:06 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
84<\/td>\n(comm2: Nothing wrong with”generous” acts with “warm glow” or salvation; they are not to be linguistically conflated with deontic actions)<\/td>\nSat Mar 27 17:02:11 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
83<\/td>\n(Comment: A generous act is precisely what should aim at NO reward neither financial nor social nor emotional; deontic not utilitarian)<\/td>\nSat Mar 27 16:48:57 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
82<\/td>\nI wonder if those who advocate generosity for its rewards notice the inconsistency or if wt they call generosity is an investment strategy<\/td>\nSat Mar 27 16:35:57 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
81<\/td>\nJust as there are authors who enjoy “having written” and others whp enjoy writing there are books you (cont) twitlonger.com\/…<\/a><\/td>\nSat Mar 27 16:15:13 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
80<\/td>\nRalph Nader incorruptible: this is the 2nd time in my life I encounter someone who does not have any fake cell (cont) twitlonger.com\/…<\/a><\/td>\nSat Mar 27 13:15:33 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
79<\/td>\n(For those too slow to get my point: we gloss over great financial crimes (bankers) great cases of incompetence (Bernanke et econ establ)..<\/td>\nFri Mar 26 21:49:33 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
78<\/td>\nMediocre men tend to be outraged by small insults but passive subdued & silent in front of very large ones<\/td>\nFri Mar 26 21:01:51 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
77<\/td>\nTrue humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing.<\/td>\nFri Mar 26 15:30:17 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
76<\/td>\nSince Plato Western thought has focused on True\/False; high time to shift it to Robust\/Fragile & social epistemology to Sucker\/Nonsucker<\/td>\nFri Mar 26 14:36:49 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
75<\/td>\nEconomics cannot digest the idea that the collective (& the aggregate) are disproportionately less predictable than individuals<\/td>\nFri Mar 26 12:12:16 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
74<\/td>\nPeople reserve standard compliments to those who do not threaten their pride; the others they praise by calling “arrogant”<\/td>\nFri Mar 26 12:00:58 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
73<\/td>\nThe imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination<\/td>\nThu Mar 25 20:17:01 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
72<\/td>\nThe 4 most influential modrns Darwin Marx Freud & (early) Einstein were scholars but not academics. Hard to do genuine wrk w institutions<\/td>\nThu Mar 25 19:42:44 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
71<\/td>\nIt is easier to remember your emails that were not answered than emails you did not answer<\/td>\nThu Mar 25 18:12:24 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
70<\/td>\nA good tweet\/maxim shd 1) surprise you 2) be true (countrintuitv) & 3) be symmetric (one assertion one negation) or rythmic<\/td>\nThu Mar 25 16:42:17 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
69<\/td>\nThe fool views himself more unique and others more generic; the wise views himself more generic and others more unique<\/td>\nThu Mar 25 16:29:25 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
68<\/td>\nCorrollary: Someone who says “I am busy” is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.<\/td>\nThu Mar 25 15:11:37 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
67<\/td>\nOnly in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent finesse & mostly sprezzatura<\/td>\nThu Mar 25 12:14:20 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
66<\/td>\nAcademia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but to the nonsucker not exactly the same thing [2nd ed<\/td>\nWed Mar 24 20:05:13 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
65<\/td>\nRumors are only valuable when they are denied.<\/td>\nTue Mar 23 19:03:30 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
64<\/td>\nYou only way to know whether you liked a book is if you re-read it -the rest is spin www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/favbooks.html<\/td>\nFri Mar 19 12:08:58 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
63<\/td>\nWriters are remembered for their best work politicians for their worst mistakes; & businessmen are almst never remembered.[repost\/error]<\/td>\nMon Mar 15 13:10:05 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
62<\/td>\nThe 20th C was the bankruptcy of the social utopia. The 21st will be that of the technological one. [From one Procrustean bed to another.]<\/td>\nSun Mar 14 12:53:08 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
61<\/td>\nIn nature we never repeat the same motion. In captivity (office gym commute sports) life is just repetitive stress injury. No randomness<\/td>\nSat Mar 13 17:51:36 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
60<\/td>\nUsing as excuse others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.<\/td>\nFri Mar 12 17:33:19 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
59<\/td>\nDubai borrowed to put vanity buildings on postcards; America and W. Europe need to borrow to just survive.<\/td>\nFri Mar 12 12:52:12 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
58<\/td>\nWe unwittingly amplify commonalities with friends dissimilarities with strangers & contrasts with enemies.<\/td>\nThu Mar 11 23:30:16 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
57<\/td>\nThe mark of a mediocre mind is the subdued and passive reaction in front of the truly exceptional.<\/td>\nThu Mar 11 19:32:22 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
56<\/td>\n[Explanation: The biggest error since Socrates has been to believe that lack of clarity is the SOURCE of all our ills not the result. ]<\/td>\nWed Mar 10 19:22:28 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
55<\/td>\nMental clarity is the child of courage not the other way around.<\/td>\nWed Mar 10 19:07:42 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
54<\/td>\nWhat they call play (gym travel) looks like work;what I call work (effortless daydreaming) looks like play.They lose freedom trying harder.<\/td>\nWed Mar 10 11:27:38 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
53<\/td>\nThe differences between Goldman Sachs & the mafia: GS has a better legal-regulatory expertise; but the mafia understands public opinion.<\/td>\nTue Mar 09 15:13:17 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
52<\/td>\nCommon minds find similarities in stories (& situations) finer minds detect differences [Essay on the Universal & the Particular]<\/td>\nMon Mar 08 08:47:00 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
51<\/td>\nI wish to say some day about someone “Voil\u00c3 un homme!” as Napoleon said upon meeting Goethe: mixture of passion & intellect (& elegance too)<\/td>\nSun Mar 07 13:45:20 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
50<\/td>\n\u00c3\u0153bermen tolerate others’ small inconsistencies though not the large ones;losers tolerate others’ large inconsistencies though not small ones<\/td>\nFri Mar 05 14:16:58 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
49<\/td>\nIf you want people to read a book tell them it is overrated.<\/td>\nSun Feb 28 21:07:15 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
48<\/td>\nTheir sabbatical is to work six days and rest for one; my sabbatical is to work for (part of) a day and rest for six.<\/td>\nSun Feb 28 15:05:56 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
47<\/td>\nCity-states organize by tinkering; nation-states produce bureaucracies empty suits Bernankes deficits and the toobigtofail. Too obvious.<\/td>\nSat Feb 27 14:49:33 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
46<\/td>\nansw:[ If you can’t detect (w\/out understanding) the difference betw sacred & profane you’ll never know what religion means. Same with art ]<\/td>\nFri Feb 26 15:36:29 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
45<\/td>\nAtheism\/materialism means treating the dead as if they were unborn. I won’t. By respecting the sacred you reinvent religion.<\/td>\nFri Feb 26 12:47:14 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
44<\/td>\nI wonder if a lion (or a cannibal) would pay a high premium for free-range humans. [modern bondage]<\/td>\nThu Feb 25 16:00:39 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
43<\/td>\nWriting is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.<\/td>\nWed Feb 24 20:40:59 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
42<\/td>\nYou know you have influence when people start noticing your absence more than the presence of others.<\/td>\nTue Feb 23 23:26:43 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
41<\/td>\nDream to be a janitor in a philosophy department came true! http:\/\/fooledbyrandomness.com\/philo-lecture.htm<\/a><\/td>\nTue Feb 23 19:07:00 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40<\/td>\n(cont)… what they call literature I call journalism; what they call journalism I call gossip & what they call gossip I call voyeurism.<\/td>\nTue Feb 23 15:54:34 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
39<\/td>\nHow superb to become wise without being boring; how sad to be boring without being wise [Bernanke].<\/td>\nMon Feb 22 11:30:39 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
38<\/td>\nThe role of the media is best seen in the journey from Cato the elder to Sarah Palin. Do some extrapolation if you want to be scared.<\/td>\nSun Feb 21 12:12:23 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
37<\/td>\n[Ethics Cognitive Dissonnance & Diffusion of Responsibility Chap why we need to worry about econ “risk experts” & other charlatans]<\/td>\nSun Feb 21 11:49:23 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36<\/td>\nEthical man accords his profession to his beliefs instead of according his beliefs to his profession. Rarer and rarer since middle ages.<\/td>\nSun Feb 21 11:35:32 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35<\/td>\nMost people write so they can remember things; I write so I can forget them.<\/td>\nSat Feb 20 20:29:06 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/td>\nCorollary to Moore’s laws: every ten years collective wisdom degrades by half.<\/td>\nSat Feb 20 17:58:08 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33<\/td>\nI wonder whether a bitter enemy would be jealous if he discovered that I hated someone else.<\/td>\nSat Feb 20 17:25:52 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32<\/td>\nWhat they call philosophy I call literature; what they call literature I call journalism; and what they call journalism I call gossip.<\/td>\nSat Feb 20 15:58:23 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
31<\/td>\nIt is much harder to be a Stoic when wealthy powerful and respected than when destitute miserable and lonely. [s. VII]<\/td>\nSat Feb 20 15:37:55 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/td>\nAcademics are only useful when they try to be useless and dangerous when they try to be useful.<\/td>\nSat Feb 20 13:03:47 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>\nSuccess is to be in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. The rest comes from loss of control.<\/td>\nSat Feb 20 10:42:44 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/td>\nA good foe is far more loyal far more predictable and to the clever far more useful than any admirer<\/td>\nFri Feb 19 23:16:22 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/td>\nYou will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend no admirer and no partner will flatter you with equal curiosity.<\/td>\nFri Feb 19 22:27:53 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26<\/td>\nMediterraneans scorn instructions but bow to authority; Anglo-Saxons bow to instructions but scorn authority.<\/td>\nFri Feb 19 21:25:00 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\nMost modern technologies are deferred punishment.<\/td>\nFri Feb 19 20:48:45 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\nEvolution does not teach by convincing but by destroying. [Fat Tony on why Robert Merton univ tenures in econ and bailouts are dangers]<\/td>\nFri Feb 19 15:55:50 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\nThe Stoic sage shd withdraw frm public efforts when unheeded & state is corrupt beyond repair.[Seneca] Wiser to wait for selfdestruction.<\/td>\nFri Feb 19 11:26:47 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\nThere is nothing deemed harmful (in general) that cannot be beneficial in some particular instances. Universals are weaker under complexity.<\/td>\nThu Feb 18 23:18:31 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\nThe average of expectations is typically &gt; than the expectation of averages. (“Don’t cross a river because it is on average 4 f deep”)<\/td>\nThu Feb 18 13:04:13 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nMedieval man was a cog in a wheel he did not understand; modern man is a cog in a more complicated system he thinks he understands. [Ch. 5]<\/td>\nThu Feb 18 11:47:25 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nGiving businessreaders my book: like giving vintage Bordeaux to drinkers of Diet Coke and listening to their comments about it [TBS-2nd ed]<\/td>\nThu Feb 18 11:21:47 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\nThey will envy you for your success for your wealth for your intelligence for your looks for your status –but rarely for your wisdom<\/td>\nWed Feb 17 21:49:24 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\nThe idea is to NEVER answer critics just aim to stay in print –make sure people will be reading me long after they are dead.<\/td>\nTue Feb 16 16:24:10 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nModernity: We created youth without heroism age without wisdom and life without grandeur.<\/td>\nTue Feb 16 11:53:34 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nIt is much easier to scam people for billions than for just millions. [on Madoff & US gov-1st Lesson in the Epistemology of Fat Tony]<\/td>\nSun Feb 14 10:46:52 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nCharm lies in the unsaid the unwritten and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.<\/td>\nFri Feb 12 10:20:15 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nWe are better at (involuntarily) DOING out of the box than (voluntarily) THINKING out of the box. Thinking is just ornamental; for show-off<\/td>\nFri Feb 12 08:29:11 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nI read nothing from the past 300 years; I drink nothing from the past 3000 years; but I talk to no ordinary man over 40.<\/td>\nThu Feb 11 12:09:21 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nIn science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.<\/td>\nWed Feb 10 11:12:28 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nCNBC journalists are imbeciles. “You need skills to get a BMW skills + luck to become a Buffet” -&gt; into “Buffet has no skills”. Imbeciles.<\/td>\nTue Feb 09 14:04:24 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nEdmund Phelps got the “Nobel” for writings no one reads theories no one uses and lectures no one understands. [Panel in Moscow]<\/td>\nMon Feb 08 10:38:16 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nEducation makes the wise slightly wiser but makes the fool vastly more dangerous. [Overconfidence Chapt 4]<\/td>\nMon Feb 08 10:11:03 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nWe ask “why is he rich (or poor)?” not “why isn’t he richer (poorer)?”;”why is the crisis so deep?” not “why isn’t it deeper?”. [Chapter 4]<\/td>\nSat Feb 06 18:50:03 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nI trust those who earn their living lying on their back more than those who do so sitting on a chair (hint: I read in bed…)<\/td>\nMon Feb 01 18:13:00 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nDon’t trust a man on a salary -except if it is minimum wage. Those on bondage & \u00ce\u00b2\u00ce\u00ac\u00ce\u00bd\u00ce\u00b1\u00cf\u2026\u00cf\u0192\u00ce\u00bf\u00ce\u00b9 would do anything to “feed a family”. [Chapter 3]<\/td>\nMon Feb 01 14:48:29 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nI’d rather be a janitor in a philosophy department than Chaired Prof at Harvard Business School; or flaneur in NY than a hotshot at Davos<\/td>\nWed Jan 27 14:05:21 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nI now take a hot bath after reading emails from businessmen or journalists; I then feel purified from the profane until the next email.<\/td>\nThu Jan 21 15:39:23 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nWe worry about “too big” but the biggest error-prone centralized top-down institution in the world is the US Gov. It is getting bigger.<\/td>\nTue Oct 06 22:16:46 2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nYou cannot express the holy in terms made for the profane; but you can discuss the profane in terms made for the holy<\/td>\nWed Jul 08 00:16:04 2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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