Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes - Page 10

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• Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

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  College, Nuclear Families, Social

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.42, Random House

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• My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

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  Lying, Growing, May

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1764, Random House

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• We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

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  Pay, Fool, Worst

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.83, Random House

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• What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

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  People, Interesting, Dating

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Sep 26, 2010

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• Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks-when one fails, they all fall. We have moved from a diversified ecology of small banks, with varied lending policies, to a more homogeneous framework of firms that all resemble one another. True, we now have fewer failures, but when they occur... I shiver at the thought.

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  Fall, Numbers, Financial

  "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007.

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• Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

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  Experience, Study, Cherries

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.36, Random House

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• We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

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  Use, Therapy

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.69, Random House

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• History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.

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  Historical, Mind, Events

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.785, Random House

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• Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

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  Winning, Trying, Argument

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.518, Random House

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• The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

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  Technology, Opposites, Cowardice

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.16, Random House

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• Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

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  Mother, Never Trust, Journalist

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from May 02, 2013

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• [A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.

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  Theory, Dangerous, Dangerous Things

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.116, Random House

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• Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

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  Childhood, Becoming, Middle

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.26, Random House

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• The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

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  Country, Jail, May

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.62, Random House

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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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  Business, Gestures, Finance

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.19, Random House

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• Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.

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  Confusion

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.101, Random House

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• Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

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  Laughing, Owing, May

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.827, Random House

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• While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

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  Practice, Information, Theory

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.198, Random House

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• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

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  Technology, Guy, Noise

  "Nassim Taleb: 'Big corporations will always fail'". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

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  Tragedy, Boring, Virtue

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.63, Random House

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• Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

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  Quality, Fragility, Vulnerable

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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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  What Matters, People, Serendipity

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• A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

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  Strong, Athlete, Men

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.42, Random House

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• Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

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  Procrastination, Exercise, Defense

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.122, Random House

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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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  Water, Storm, Too Late

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