Mohammed Alshiekh

“My dear Socrates … you know why they are putting you to death? It is because you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions. You may be occasionally right. But you may confuse them about things they’ve been doing just fine without getting in trouble. You are destroying people’s illusions about themselves. You are taking the joy of ignorance out of the things we don’t understand. And you have no answer; you have no answer to offer them.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can’t always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you’ve planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable.”
― Isaac Asimov, Forward the Foundation

“There have always been two ways to be rich: by accumulating vast sums or by needing very little.”
― Ethan Hawke, Rules for a Knight

“Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.)”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder