“ Such trait of absence of marriage to ideas is indeed rare among humans. Just as we do with children, we support those in whom we have a heavy investment of food and time until they are able to propaga… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Sosiaalinen media on vakavasti epäsosiaalinen, terveysruoat ovat empiirisesti epäterveellisiä, tietotyöläiset ovat erittäin tietämättömiä ja sosiaalitieteet eivät ole millään tavalla tieteellisiä. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Someone who did not find something is providing others with knowledge, the best knowledge, that of absence (what does not work)—yet he gets little or no credit for it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ So just as Stoicism is the domestication, not the elimination, of emotions, so is the barbell a domestication, not the elimination, of uncertainty. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ So from this we can see that there is a tension between nature and individual organisms. Everything alive or organic in nature has a finite life and dies eventually—even Methuselah lived less than a t… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ She received enough attention to get the courtesy of rejection letters and occasional insulting comments instead of the far more insulting and demeaning silence. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Self-contradiction is made culturally to be shameful, a matter that can prove disastrous in science. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Recall that someone with only casual knowledge about the problems of randomness would believe that an animal is at the maximum fitness for the conditions of its time. This is not what evolution means;… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Primitive societies are largely free of cardiovascular disease, cancer, dental cavities, economic theories, lounge music, and other modern ailments. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Pero hay otros problemas que surgen de nuestra ceguera ante el Cisne Negro: a) Nos centramos en segmentos preseleccionados de lo visto, y a partir de ahí generalizamos en lo no visto: el error de la c… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Per lo studioso e leader religioso arabo ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib (che non è un mio parente), mantenere le distanze da una persona ignorante equivale a stare in compagnia di un saggio. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Per il robusto un errore è informazione, per il debole un errore è solo un errore Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Outside of textbooks and casinos, probability almost never presents itself as a mathematical problem or a brain teaser. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Our sophistication continuously puts us ahead of ourselves, creating things we are less and less capable of understanding. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Our operation has a mortality rate of 1%. So far we have operated on ninety-nine patients with great success; you are our one hundreth, hence you have a 100% probability of dying on the table. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Or, if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time (assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ One of the methods, called sortes virgilianae (fate as decided by the epic poet Virgil), involved opening Virgil’s Aeneid at random and interpreting the line that presented itself as direction for the… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ On the one hand, I try to define myself and behave officially as a no-nonsense hyperrealist ferreting out the role of chance; on the other, I have no qualms indulging in all manner of personal superst… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
