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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them nerdiness the reverse
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.
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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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I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
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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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People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
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You never win an argument until they attack your person.
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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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We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
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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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The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
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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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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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It's harder to say 'no' when you really mean it.
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It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.
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