Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Writing, Two, Lunch

• Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Writing, Mean, Ideas

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.15, Random House

• Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Writing

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1751, Random House

• Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Art, Writing, Oneself

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.45, Random House

• When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Writing, People, Matter

  "Nassim Taleb: my rules for life" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2012.

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