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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Inspirational Quotes (204)

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Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
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While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
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It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
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I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.
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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave you also need to avoid becoming a master.
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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them nerdiness the reverse
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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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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
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There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or incentives for skill.
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The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history
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A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
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