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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Economist
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
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Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.
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Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
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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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Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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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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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.
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We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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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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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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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
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The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.
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