Information Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

10 Information quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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If you’re curious about how randomness and uncertainty shape the data we trust, Taleb’s brief set offers a gritty look at the hidden forces behind what we call information.

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To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

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For the robust, an error is information.

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Information is bad for knowledge.

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Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

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While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

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A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

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If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the…

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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information…

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When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions,…

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There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and…

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We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

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