“ Our misunderstanding of the Black Swan can be largely attributed to our using System 1, i.e., narratives, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ You have far more control over your life if you decide on your criterion by yourself. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, not even a spectrum of possible explanations. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ We live to produce information, or improve on it. Nietzsche had the Latin pun aut liberi, aut libri—either children or books, both information that caries through the centuries…I am here to die a hero… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ We have to accept the fuzziness of the familiar because no matter how queasy it makes us feel (and it does makes us queasy to remove the analgesic illusion of causality). Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ We have always been crazy but weren't skilled enough to destroy the world. Now we can. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Traders, when they make profits, have short communications; when they lose they drown you in details, theories, and charts. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ To summarize: in this (personal) essay, I stick my neck out and make a claim, against many of our habits of thought, that our world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown, and the very improbable (i… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ This simple inability to remember not the true sequence of events but a reconstructed one will make history appear in hindsight to be far more explainable than it actually was—or is. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ This is the reason I put social science theories in the left column of the Triad, as something superfragile for real-world decisions and unusable for risk analyses. The very designation theory is even… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ This chapter has two topics. First, we are demonstrably arrogant about what we think we know. We certainly know a lot, but we have a built-in tendency to think that we know a little bit more than we a… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ There is this error of thinking that things always have a reason that is accessible to us—that we can comprehend easily. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The very idea of exercise is to gain from antifragility to workout stressors—as we saw, all kinds of exercise are just exploitations of convexity effects. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The Golden Rule wants you to Treat others the way you would like them to treat you. The more robust Silver Rule says Do not treat others the way you would not like them to treat you. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Sei vivo in proporzione inversa alla densità delle frasi fatte che usi nei tuoi scritti Nassim Nicholas Taleb
