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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
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What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.
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Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
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You get pseudo-order when you seek order you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.
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Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.
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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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My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
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If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.
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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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