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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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Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
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When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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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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Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
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Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
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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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Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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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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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this nerdification, to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
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