“ Understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human pursuit. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ That very rare ability called imagination, that rarer quality called courage, and who make things happen. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Keeping one’s distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Interventionism depletes mental and economic resources; it is rarely available when it is needed the most. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can’t know) is the central idea of uncertainty. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The strength of the computer entrepreneur Steve Jobs was precisely in distrusting market research and focus groups— those based on asking people what they want—and following his own imagination. His m… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The scientist’s behavior while facing the refutation of his ideas has been studied in depth as part of the so-called attribution bias. You attribute your successes to skills, but your failures to rand… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The occurrence of a highly improbable event is the equivalent of the nonoccurrence of a highly probable one Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The difference between a trader and an investor lies in the duration of the bet, and the corresponding size. There Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The biologist and intellectual E. O. Wilson was once asked what represented the most hindrance to the development of children; his answer was the soccer mom. He did not use the notion of the Procruste… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The French writer Edmond About, who visited Greece in 1832, a dozen years after its independence, reports how peasants struggled with the metric system as it was completely unnatural to them and stuck… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allow… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Rational flâneur (or just flâneur): Someone who, unlike a tourist, makes a decision opportunistically at every step to revise his schedule (or his destination) so he can imbibe things based on new inf… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Our propensity to impose meaning and concepts blocks our awareness of the details making up the concept. However, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
