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My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
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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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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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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
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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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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave you also need to avoid becoming a master.
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I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.
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Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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Only the autodidacts are free.
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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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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Luck is the grand equalizer.
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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
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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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Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
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Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.
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If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
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Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
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