André Luiz

“Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don’t talk, and it would be unfair, wrong, and downright insulting to measure them in the talk department. The same with artisans: the quality lies in their product, not their conversation—in fact they can easily have false beliefs that, as a side effect (inverse iatrogenics), lead them to make better products, so what? Bureaucrats, on the other hand, because of the lack of an objective metric of success and the absence of market forces, are selected on the “halo effects” of shallow looks and elegance. The side effect is to make them better at conversation. I am quite certain a dinner with a United Nations employee would cover more interesting subjects than one with some of Fat Tony’s cousins or a computer entrepreneur obsessed with circuits.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“I have always hated employment and the associated dependence on someone else’s arbitrary opinion, particularly when much of what’s done inside large corporations violates my sense of ethics.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“In his conclusion, Zajonc maintains that he has “not encountered a single instance of massacre that was not preceded by extensive development of moral imperatives.”
― James Waller, Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing

“As one example, David Norman Smith, a sociologist at the University of Kansas, points out that exceptionally intense violence occurs with significantly greater frequency in cultures where children are routinely physically or emotionally abused or denied affection.”
― James Waller, Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing