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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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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible we scorn the abstract.
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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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Alan Greenspan is unskilled you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.
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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
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What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
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My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
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You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
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Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.
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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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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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The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history
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