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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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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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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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Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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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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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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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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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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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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Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
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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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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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Things always become obvious after the fact
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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