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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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You never win an argument until they attack your person.
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It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
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Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.
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Someone who says I am busy is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
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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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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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The fool generalizes the particular the nerd particularizes the general some do both and the wise does neither
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But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
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The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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