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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.
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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave you also need to avoid becoming a master.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
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Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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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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true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others the rest is either shyness or good marketing
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It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.
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Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
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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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There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.
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It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem to this day I avoid the label Lebanese, preferring the less restrictive Levantine designation.
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For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
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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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It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.
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We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.
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