“ My biggest problem with the educational system lies precisely in that it forces students to squeeze explanations out of subject matters and shames them for withholding judgment, for uttering the I don… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Most of the tension in life will take place when the one who reduces and fragilizes (say the policy maker) invokes rationality. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer. So I will expose the transfer of fragility, or rather the theft of antifragility, by people arbitraging the sy… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Metric-lowering drugs are particularly vicious because of a legal complexity. The doctor has the incentive to prescribe it because should the patient have a heart attack, he would be sued for negligen… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Mathematicians of probability give that a fancy name: ergodicity. It means, roughly, that (under certain conditions) very long sample paths would end up resembling each other. The properties of a very… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Locke’s definition of a madman: someone reasoning correctly from erroneous premises. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Lo que no sabemos La lógica del Cisne Negro hace que lo que no sabemos sea más importante que lo que sabemos.* Tengamos en cuenta que muchos Cisnes Negros pueden estar causados y exacerbados por el he… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Like tormenting love, some thoughts are so antifragile that you feed them by trying to get rid of them, turning them into obsessions. Psychologists have shown the irony of the process of thought contr… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Let me warn against misinterpreting the message here. The argument is not against the notion of intervention; in fact I showed above that I am equally worried about underintervention when it is truly… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ L'odio è amore con un piccolo errore da qualche parte nella programmazione: un errore che si potrebbe correggere, ma che è molto difficile trovare Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It was confidently believed that the scientific successes of the industrial revolution could be carried through into the social sciences, particularly with such movements as Marxism. Pseudoscience cam… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice, particularly for writing and financial matters. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It is the system and its fragility, not events, that must be studied—what physicists call percolation theory, in which the properties of the randomness of the terrain are studied, rather than those of… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It is the same kind of deep internal disgust that takes hold of me when I see a rich eighty-two-year-old man surrounded with babes, twentysomething mistresses (often Russian or Ukrainian). I am not he… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It is much easier to sell Look what I did for you than Look what I avoided for you. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It is hard to resist discussion of artificial history without a comment on the father of all pseudothinkers, Hegel. Hegel writes a jargon that is meaningless outside of a chic Left Bank Parisian café… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
