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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Economist
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We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.
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The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
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Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
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Things always become obvious after the fact
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A competitive athlete is painful to look at trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.
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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.
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true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others the rest is either shyness or good marketing
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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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They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns) in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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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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