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You never win an argument until they attack your person.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!
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People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
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Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
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Only the autodidacts are free.
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Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
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If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.
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While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
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Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
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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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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.
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Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
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Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.
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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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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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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 worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.
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