“ Books to me are not expanded journal articles, but reading experiences, and the academics who tend to read in order to cite in their writing--rather than read for enjoyment, curiosity, or simply becau… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Black Swan logic makes what you don't know far more relevant than what you do know. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Before the enlightenment and the age of rationality, there was in the culture a collection of tricks to deal with our fallibility and reversals of fortunes. The elders can still help us with some of t… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Aside from France, I was baffled by the puzzle of Sweden and other Nordic states, which are often offered as paragons of the large state that works—the government represents a large portion of the tot… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ As Yogi Berra said, In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ As I got her to explain to other people her evidence about the lack of effectiveness of funding formal education, one person got frustrated with our skepticism. Wolf’s answer to him was real education… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ An idea stats to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ An idea does not survive because it is better than the competition, but rather because the person who holds it has survived! Accordingly, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant, the opposite. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Almost everything in social life is produced by rare but consequential shocks and jumps; all the while almost everything studied about social life focuses on the normal, particularly with bell curve m… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Alexander the Magnus was once called to solve the following challenge in the Phrygian city of Gordium (as usual with Greek stories, in modern-day Turkey). When he entered Gordium, he found an old wago… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Administrators everywhere on the planet, in all businesses and pursuits, and at all times in history, have been the plague. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Actually my father kept hinting to me the problem of getting good grades himself: the person who was at the exact bottom of his class (and ironically, the father of a classmate at Wharton) turned out… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Accidentul pozitiv (ca în cazul medicamentului pentru hipertensiune care a produs beneficii colaterale ce au condus apoi la Viagra) a reprezentat metoda centrală a empiriștilor în descoperirea medical… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ A novel, a story, a myth, or a tale, all have the same function: they spare us from the complexity of the world and shield us from its randomness. Myths impart order to the disorder of human perceptio… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ A half-man (or, rather, half-person) is not someone who does not have an opinion, just someone who does not take risks for it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
