“In a natural environment, people die without aging—or after a very short period of aging.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one’s profession, by… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought… — 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
“A Solution Waiting for a Problem Engineers tend to develop tools for the pleasure of developing tools, not to induce nature to… — 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
