A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity’s phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.