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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
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I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.
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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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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
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What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.
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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
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It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
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If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!
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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same the antifragile gets better.
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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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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.
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Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.
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