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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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If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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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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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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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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Someone who says I am busy is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
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What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
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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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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.
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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
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Love without sacrifice is like theft
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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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If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
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