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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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Economist
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Mathematician
Philosopher
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University Teacher
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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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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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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Things always become obvious after the fact
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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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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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them nerdiness the reverse
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We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible we scorn the abstract.
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It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
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The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
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We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
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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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Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
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