“ We observe old people and see them age, so we associate aging with their loss of muscle mass, bone weakness, loss of mental function, taste for Frank Sinatra music, and similar degenerative effects. B… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ This book is the synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense practitioner of uncertainty who spent his professional life trying to resist being fooled by randomness and trick the emotions associated wi… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The way to avoid the ills of the narrative fallacy is to favor experimentation over storytelling, experience over history, and clinical knowledge over theories. Certainly Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading altogether - when you are limited to the school material and you get bored, you have a tendency… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The antifragile loves randomness and uncertainty, which also means—crucially—a love of errors, a certain class of errors. Antifragility has a singular property of allowing us to deal with the unknown,… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Some can be more intelligent than others in a structured environment—in fact school has a selection bias as it favors those quicker in such an environment, and like anything competitive, at the expens… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Needless to say that the ideas of this book fall squarely into the Tragic category: We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to o… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Life would be unbearably bland if we had no enemies on whom to waste efforts and energy. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Koulutus tekee viisaasta hieman viisaamman, mutta hölmöstä valtavasti vaarallisemman. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It was calculated that actors who win an Oscar tend to live on average about five years longer than their peers who don’t. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Increasingly, data can only truly deliver via negativa–style knowledge—it can be effectively used to debunk, not confirm. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Heuristics are simplified rules of thumb that make things simple and easy to implement. But their main advantage is that the user knows that they are not perfect, just expedient, and is therefore less… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Having an assistant (except for the strictly necessary) removes your soul from the game. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. S… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Wealth does not count so much into one’s well-being as the route one uses to get to it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
