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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

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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 rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
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The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
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You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.
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Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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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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Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
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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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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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People focus on role models it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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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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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.
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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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Things always become obvious after the fact
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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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