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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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.
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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.
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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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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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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
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Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.
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Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum
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Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.
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There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.
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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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[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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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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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
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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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People focus on role models it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
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