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Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.

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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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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
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Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
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