“There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell them. As the great philosopher of uncertainty Yogi berra… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Of course, it is not so easy to “falsify,” i.e., to state that something is wrong with full certainty. Imperfections in your… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“As the skeptics’ main teaching was that nothing could be accepted with certainty, conclusions of various degrees of probability could be formed,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“probability is principally a branch of applied skepticism,” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“This book is the synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense practitioner of uncertainty who spent his professional life trying to resist… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human… — 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
