“ Recall that the Platonic fold is where our representation of reality ceases to apply—but we do not know it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic. Statistics stay silent in us. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ One day in the 1980s I had dinner with a famous speculator, a hugely successful man. He muttered the hyperbole that hit home: much of what other people know isn’t worth knowing. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Many people labor in life under the impression that they are doing something right, yet they may not show solid results for a long time. They need a capacity for continuously adjourned gratification t… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Los emprendedores son unos héroes en nuestra sociedad. Fracasan por el resto de nosotros Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Je préférerais être bête et antifragile qu’extrêmement intelligent et fragile, à n’importe quel moment. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about—and the reader is no fool. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interes… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ For instance, having an intense emotional shock from seeing a snake coming out of my keyboard or a vampire entering my room, followed by a period of soothing safety (with chamomile tea and baroque mus… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Being an executive does not require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrying schedules. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Almost all people answer that the opposite of fragile is robust, resilient, solid, or something of the sort. But the resilient, robust (and company) items that neither break nor improve, so you would… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ A complex system, contrary to what people believe, does not require complicated systems and regulations and intricate policies. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ A Solution Waiting for a Problem Engineers tend to develop tools for the pleasure of developing tools, not to induce nature to yield its secrets. It so happens that some of these tools bring us more k… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ With a Latin saying that sophistication is born out of hunger (artificia docuit fames). Nassim Nicholas Taleb
