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Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Economist
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Mathematician
Philosopher
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University Teacher
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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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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If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.
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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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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
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Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.
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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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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
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Someone who says I am busy is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
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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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Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.
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My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
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The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.
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What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.
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Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
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