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Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
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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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Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
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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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I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
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I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.
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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.
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Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.
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When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
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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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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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It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
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Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.
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Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
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If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
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