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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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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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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
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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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Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.
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Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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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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If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.
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I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
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It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
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People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.
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Only the autodidacts are free.
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Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
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When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.
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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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