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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

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The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.

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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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