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
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea. — 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
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
