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In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For the antifragile, shocks bring more benefits (equivalently, less harm) as their intensity increases (up to a point).
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People feel deep anxiety finding out that someone they thought was stupid is actually more intelligent than they are.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But the technology is only trivial retrospectively - not prospectively.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught.
— Nicholas Nassim Taleb
Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.)
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In the long run everything with the most minute vulnerability breaks, given the ruthlessness of time.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mathematics is principally a tool to meditate, rather than to compute.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
So the modern world may be increasing in technological knowledge, but, paradoxically, it is making things a lot more unpredictable.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For Mother Nature, opinions and predictions don't count; surviving is what matters.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
cocksure prophet. Where I beg to differ with the great
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I can find confirmation for just about anything, the
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ignoramus et ignorabimus - we are ignorant and will remain so. Somehow
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion - in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
that very rare ability called imagination, that rarer quality called courage, and who make things happen.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is a Yiddish saying: If I am going to be forced to eat pork, it better be of the best kind.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sometimes people ask you a question with their eyes begging you to not tell them the truth.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
to avoid dullness may help to filter out the nonessential.)
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Half of life - the interesting half of life - we don't have a name for.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If the student is smart, the teacher takes the credit.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is generally accepted that harm from doctors - not including risks from hospital germs - accounts for more deaths than any single cancer.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You view the world from within a model.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Being self-owned is a state of mind.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Stoicism's Emotional Robustification Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To understand how something works, figure out how to break it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A mathematician thinks in numbers, a lawyer in laws, and an idiot thinks in words.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We laugh at others and we don't realize that someone will be just as justified in laughing at us on some not too remote day
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
At the end, what matters is the strength of the string - not the wealth and power of the dining party.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
With a Latin saying that sophistication is born out of hunger (artificia docuit fames).
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent),
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Luck is the grand equalizer.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says "f*** you" to fate.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You need a story to displace a story.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You never win an argument until they attack your person.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have. We lack imagination and repress it in others.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb