And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity.
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NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB (J)ust as we tend to underestimate the role of luck in life in general, we tend to overestimate NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infreq...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is mor...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly s...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and a...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB ...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against mod...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the wors...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, ...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores i...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to w...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsu...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the ...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB What I learned on my own I still remember
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB It certainly takes bravery to remain skeptical; it takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confro...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Clearly, an open mind is a necessity when dealing with randomness. Popper believed that any idea of ...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB A mathematician starts with a problem and creates a solution; a consultant starts by offering a “s...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB More data means more information, but it also means more false information.
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Take the following potent and less-is-more-style argument by the rogue economist Ha-Joon Chang. In 1...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB We can simplify the relationships between fragility, errors, and antifragility as follows. When you ...
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