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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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Economist
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.
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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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Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.
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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.
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I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.
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Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.
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My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.
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If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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