“ There is an element of deceit associated with interventionism, accelerating in a professionalized society. It’s much easier to sell Look what I did for you than Look what I avoided for you. Of course… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Technology is the result of antifragility, exploited by risk-takers in the form of tinkering and trial and error, with nerd-driven design confined to the backstage. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Take the following potent and less-is-more-style argument by the rogue economist Ha-Joon Chang. In 1960 Taiwan had a much lower literacy rate than the Philippines and half the income per person; today… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Silent evidence pervades everything connected to the notion of . By history, I don't mean just those learned-but-dull books in the history section (with Renaissance paintings on their cover to attract… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (one of the doer-Stoic authors), fire feeds on obstacles. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Light control works; close control leads to overreaction, sometimes causing the machinery to break into pieces. In a famous paper On Governors, published in 1867, Maxwell modeled the behavior and show… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Latin saying that sophistication is born out of hunger (artificia docuit fames). Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It was a few years after the beginning of the Lebanese war, as I was attending the Wharton School, at the age of twenty-two, that I was hit with the idea of efficient markets—an idea that holds that t… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It is a very recent disease to mistake the unobserved for the nonexistent; but some are plagued with the worse disease of mistaking the unobserved for the unobservable. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ But we have evidence that collectively society doesn’t advance with organized education, rather the reverse: the level of (formal) education in a country is the result of wealth.*2 Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Più la risposta è non lineare, meno rilevante è la media e più importante è la stabilità intorno a questa media. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Matters are far worse: we may have no less of a problem with phony skepticism. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
