- Antifragility is not just resilience or the ability to withstand stress. It's the ability to benefit from chaos and uncertainty. Antifragile
- History does not crawl, it leaps. The Black Swan
- We overestimate our knowledge and abilities, while ignoring randomness and luck. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- We cannot predict the future, but we can prepare for it by creating systems that benefit from unpredictability. Antifragile
- A black swan is an event that has three attributes: it is an anomaly, it has an extreme impact, and despite its anomaly status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact. The Black Swan
- Failures are not always the result of poor work, and success is not always solely the result of good work. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- The best way to understand what antifragility is, is to imagine something that gets better under stress and chaos. Antifragile
- We tend to overestimate what we know and underestimate what we don't know. The Black Swan