“You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period of time doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.”

Nassim Taleb

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Nassim Taleb is a writer and thinker.  He grew up in Lebanon and grew rich in the USA.  He is the author of among other books, The Black Swan.  He recently created the concept of the Antifragile and wrote a book about it.