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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
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Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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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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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
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The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history
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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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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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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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Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
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The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
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Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
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