Nassim Taleb on antifragility

When you ask people, "What's the opposite of fragile?," they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong.  That's not it.  The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

~ Nassim Taleb, "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org, December 3, 2012