“ Montaigne also detected the agency problem, or why the last thing a doctor needs is for you to be healthy: No doctor derives pleasure from the health of his friends, wrote the ancient Greek satirist,… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Mine was the only job you could do if you thought of yourself as risk-hating, risk-aware, and highly ignorant. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Man-made complex systems tend to develop cascades and runaway chains of reactions that decrease, even eliminate, predictability and cause outsized events. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Le processus de la découverte (ou de l’innovation, ou du progrès technologique) dépend lui-même d’un bricolage antifragile, d’une brusque prise de risques plutôt que d’une culture formelle. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ La Ley de Rodas establece que si se tira mercancía para aligerar la carga del barco, lo que se ha perdido para beneficio de todos debe recuperarse mediante la contribución de todos. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, citing him: It seemed, wrote Machiavelli, that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It certainly takes bravery to remain skeptical; it takes inordinate courage to introspect, to confront oneself, to accept one's limitations--Scientists are seeing more and more evidence that we are sp… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Indeed, people tend to fool themselves with their self-narrative of national identity, which, in a breakthrough paper in Science by sixty-five authors, was shown to be a total fiction. (National trait… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ In an antique city-state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics—making things more symmetric. Banishment and exile, or, worse, ostracism were severe penalties—peop… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ In a famous argument, the logician W. V. Quine showed that there exist families of logically consistent interpretations and theories that can match a given series of facts. Such insight should warn us… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ If you want to study classical values such as courage or learn about stoicism, don’t necessarily look for classicists. One is never a career academic without a reason. Read the texts themselves: Senec… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ I know that history will be dominated by an improbable event, I just don't know what that event will be. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don’t know what that event will be. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ I AM NOT SO INTELLIGENT The epiphany I had in my career in randomness came when I understood that I was not intelligent enough, nor strong enough, to even try to fight my emotions. Besides, I believe… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ How was your year? brings them a small but containable spasm of pain deep inside, since almost all of their years will seem wasted to someone looking at their life from the outside. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
