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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history
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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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I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
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Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.
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By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.
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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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My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
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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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Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.
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They are born, put in a box they go home to live in a box they study by ticking boxes they go to what is called work in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box they talk about thinking outside the box and when they die they are put in a box.
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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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true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others the rest is either shyness or good marketing
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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or incentives for skill.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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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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Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.
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