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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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The fool generalizes the particular the nerd particularizes the general some do both and the wise does neither
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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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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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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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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Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
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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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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
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Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
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The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history
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Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.
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Love without sacrifice is like theft
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
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