Welcome to the website of Davis Fiore

I wrote hundreds of articles and tens of essays on different subjects. The essay of most success is for sure "Matrix Economy" that I wrote after the crisis of 2008. With the Italian version, I have been a finalist in the national literary contest "Arte Città Amica Torino", in 2011.

If you want to see the version in English, click here

Read "The code of Mhanhara" here

Eventually I'll translate and put most of my articles online. For now I hope you will appreciate these:

Click here to read the article "What we really know about not knowing", in English

Click here to read the article "No science, no cures", in English

Click here to read the article "Love", in English

Here are some of my inventions:

Ambulance green way
Never lost
Speedy shoes

Here are some articles in Italian:

La Matrix economica
Cosa realmente sappiamo riguardo al non sapere

Here are some of my aphorisms that I translated to English:

Smart is the one who can see far away, but in the only direction allowed by the blinders. Wise is the one who can turn his head 360 degrees.

Any evaluation is based on a comparison. Being with a genius makes us look stupid, being with a beautiful person makes us look horrible.

When something can be done in two ways, it's very likely to become matter of debate.

I don't believe anything, but I'm open to everything.

It's funny that two people can debate although being both wrong. Even funnier is that they can debate being both right.

The universe is actually terribly simple, unfortunately explaining things in a complex way is just as easy.

If doctors were paid only for healing, the entire medical field would already be bankrupt.

It 's funny that people almost always have opinions on everything, even when they don't have enough information to get one.

The truth that lies in between is often only an half-truth.

If you are not able to change your mind, you are not even able to understand.

What often looks like intelligence is just knowledge.

Good luck is an invented term: doesn't really exist something called good luck.

One of the greatest discoveries about meeting an alien race would be the music: what marvellous songs a race of millions of billions of beings could have ever created.

Affirm the opposite and the truth will appear a paradox.

The one who think by absolute principles has little capacity of reasoning.

No one is really rich, if he doesn't use his own wealth.

The happiness is always a few feet in front of us.

Confusing truth and reality is limited.

I wonder if the beautiness is a quality of what is being observed or a quality of the observer.

Not believing is for many a creed.

You can recognize a friend because in times you are in trouble he's closer; the others go away.

One of the biggest obstacles to the progress is the belief in our own theories.

It's more difficult to kill one person than one thousand.

What really matter is not our opinion on God, but God opinion on us.

The power of persuasion of the television lie in the authority that we ascribe to it for the fact of being heard by so many people.

Philosophers are prone to change reality, while scientists prefer to change their mind.

It's funny how experts are always able to find an answer, even when they do not know something.

First you should learn to distinguish observations from assumptions. Then you should doubt of the latter and change them until you get an answers. Here's how to be a genius in solving problems.

If money hadn't been invented, we would have much more time and much less haste.

It's funny that the main concern of a rich is the money that he has, while that of a poor is the money that he doesn't have.

I asked a question to a dilettante. He told me it was a banal question and gave me immediately an answer.
I asked the same question to an expert. He told me it was a very good question, but he didn't know the answer.

The secret for being a succesful inventor lie in learning how to invent problems, instead of concentrating on solving them.

There are two kinds of people: the honests and those who say to be honest.

Not knowing is ignorance; not knowing what we don't know is ignorance; thinking to know what we don't know is ignorance. But knowing what we don't know is the way out of ignorance.

The intelligent will always find a way to accelerate its progress toward a result.
The wise will always find a way to continue with slow and relaxed pace, moving the result toward him.

The actions of others are observed, their intentions observe us.

The power of beliefs emerges from those people who base their irrational actions on their misunderstandings.

You can learn the best technique and apply it step by step, but it will never work well if you don't understand it.

Our understanding is limited by the understanding of our teachers.

Thinking in absolute terms is simplistic and superficial.

Truth and logic need to work together.

Sometimes we transoform hope in truth because of fear.

Experts feel empowered to formulate opinions that sell as facts.

A friend cares about your problems, an acquaintance has to be entertained with interesting talks

Love makes the life easier.

Phylosophers are people with more thoughtful opinions.

Sex is short, love is all the time and forever.

Love is being unite through the storm.

The liers can almost always deceive themselves, in order to be able to convince others.

You may be a good painter, but not a good artist. You can paint the most perfect face and it will look a zombie, devoided of life; you can paint the most perfect smile and it will look frightening; you can paint the most perfect body and it will look rigid. That's because you are concentrating on particulars. You should be able to perceive your entire work as a unit, and that day you will become an artist. Then the face will be alive and full of emotions, while the body will have real motion.

Trust is something that once broken is almost impossible to regain.

The shorter is the time you know a person, the more your judgements are based on exterior aspects. The longer is the time you know that person, the more your opinions are based on interior qualities.

Love is something of so whole and absolute, that it is impossible to fall in love with two people at the same time.

Insecurity make you act as a stupid, even if often the stupids are the most secure people I have ever seen.

It's an interesting paradox that those who do not experience love sometimes understand it better than those who experience it every day. It's like an healthy person that does not understand what health really means and how important it is, in the same way that can instead do an ill person.

A teacher can learn more from a question, than a student can learn from an answer.

Monopolies earn on scarcity, competitive markets earn on waste.

We don't ask ourselves questions we are afraid of the answers.

A bad manager assigns actions, a good manager assigns objectives.

The slowest way in the short term can be the fastest way in the long term.

Espionage is the art of giving the less information you can and getting the more information you can.

You are weak, if you need to get angry.

If you observe first, your conclusions are based on observations. If you formulate a conclusion first, your observations are based on conclusions.

You have a friend when you can do a big mistake, without him changing opinion about you.

Often the only reason you cannot find a solution, or you cannot express your ideas clearly, is because of your assumptions.

If you cannot solve a problem, try to eliminate it.

Sometimes it's hard to understand the treasuries of life, when we experience them every day. It's like an healthy person that does not understand what health really is and how important it is.

Talk slowly and your words will be more important.

Ideas are worthless if they don't create social divisions: measure the value by the enthusiasm of the supporters and the innovation by the number of detractors.

You have a work of art when changing a single detail, ruin the whole beauty.

Trust takes an entire life to be gained, but only one second to be lost.

Some people constantly use the reason as a way to defend what is unreasonable.

A chess player that always performs perfect and optimal moves has a short life, what he needs is a strategy. Life works in the same identical way: you will not get anywhere without a strategy!

You can even take an advice that doesn't work, but if you are absolutely convinced that it works... it will work!

There are three types of memories: the ones that you cannot forget, the ones that you can easily forget and... I don't remember the third one.

New discoveries do not come from daily routine. New discoveries come from relentlessly exploring the unexplored.

Someone intelligent with the wrong information will provide the wrong answer. Someone wise with the wrong information will tell you that the information is wrong.

Teaching ream of details is the way to keep people ignorant.

Don't matter how intelligent you are, your ability to think won't go beyond your convictions.

Beliefs are the biggest obstacle to the progress.

Don't look for a job, you may not find it. Look on how you can help others, and you will always have a job.

Don't spend your energy to avoid problems, but spend it to solve them.

Instead of solving complex problems, make the problems simpler.

Enjoy every single moment of your life, but think like if you had to live forever.

There are no bad students, there are only bad teachers.

The only case I really learnt, is when I changed my point of view about something.

You have to believe, only when you are not certain.

Philosophy changes our thoughts according to reality, ideology changes our reality according to our thoughts.

There are always exceptions to the rules. Even this rule has exceptions.

Reality is very simple, so be careful not to mistake rationality for simplicity.

In any good choice, there is always a compromise.

Make distinction between a government that set rules to guarantee freedom and one that set rules to restrict freedom.

Most of the problems could be prevented by asking the right questions.

Your assumptions set a limit to your potential knowledge.

Intelligence allows you to change things around you. Wisdom allows you to change things inside you.

You need some kind of complexity to make things simple.

Most of the times things look complicated, is because who explain them didn't understand them very well.

Time always tells the truth.

When stuck, think wider.

Finding a mediocre solution, can stop you from finding a better solution.

Honesty is like an investment: it has a cost in the short term, but it has a return in the long term.

Democracy only works when stupid people is less than 50%.

The intelligent considers making humour a sign of intelligence. The stupid considers making humour a sign of stupidity.

The intelligent solve problems, the wise prevent problems.

If you cannot explain it in a simple way, probably you don't fully understand it.

Information that change our opinions have more value than information that confirm our opinions.

Love can only be full. A cheap love is like a hot-air-baloon without air.

Luck is useless in life, unless you also have enough intelligence to take the opportunities that luck offers you.

A good story starts with some questions, gives you some answers, and ends with more questions.

To read more aphorisms click here to open the Italian version