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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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You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
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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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Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.
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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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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
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Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
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The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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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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I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.
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Ideas come and go, stories stay.
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Things always become obvious after the fact
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We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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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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