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Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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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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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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The fool generalizes the particular the nerd particularizes the general some do both and the wise does neither
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History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this nerdification, to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
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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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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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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
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When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
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