Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
