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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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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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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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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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It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
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You get pseudo-order when you seek order you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
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Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.
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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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A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.
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You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit
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Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
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Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
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