“ Aside from the movies, examples of positive-Black Swan businesses are: some segments of publishing, scientific research, and venture capital. In these businesses, you lose small to make big. You have… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Aside from the decorum of ancient thought as opposed to the coarseness of fresh ink, I have spent some time phrasing the idea in the mathematics of evolutionary arguments and conditional probability.… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ As shown from the track record of the prophets: before you are proven right, you will be reviled; after you are proven right, you will be hated for a while, or, what’s worse, your ideas will appear to… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ As an empiricist (actually a skeptical empiricist) I despise the moralizers beyond anything on this planet: I still wonder why they blindly believe in ineffectual methods. Delivering advice assumes th… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Anything you do to optimize your work, cut some corners, or squeeze more efficiency out of it (and out of your life) will eventually make you dislike it. Artisans have their soul in the game. Primo, a… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Anything one needs to market heavily is necessarily either an inferior product or an evil one. And it is highly unethical to portray something in a more favorable light than it actually is. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Another way to view it: the iatrogenics is in the patient, not in the treatment. If the patient is close to death, all speculative treatments should be encouraged—no holds barred. Conversely, if the p… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ And, what’s worse, we didn’t get where we are today thanks to policy makers—but thanks to the appetite for risks and errors of a certain class of people we need to encourage, protect, and respect. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ And, talking about radiation, few wonder why, after hundreds of million of years of having our skins exposed to sun rays, we suddenly need so much protection from them—is it that our exposure is more… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ And, as expected, via negativa is part of classical wisdom. For the Arab scholar and religious leader Ali Bin Abi-Taleb (no relation), keeping one’s distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to k… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ And we can almost always detect antifragility (and fragility) using a simple test of asymmetry: anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the r… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ An honest person will never commit criminal acts, but a criminal will readily engage in legal acts. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ An American ship carrying mustard gas off Bari in Italy was bombed by the Germans 1942. It helped develop chemotherapy owing to the effect of the gas on the condition of the soldiers who had liquid ca… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Amateurs in any discipline are the best, if you can connect with them. Unlike dilettantes, career professionals are to knowledge what prostitutes are to love. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ All I hear is how to live longer, richer, and, of course, more laden with electronic gadgets. We are not the first generation to believe that the worst possible thing to befall us is death. But for th… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Alas, one cannot assert authority by accepting one's own fallibility. Simply, people need to be blinded by knowledge-we are made to follow leaders who can gather people together because the advantages… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Además, en los países donde la riqueza se obtiene a través de la manipulación o explotación del entorno político o económico, sea por la vía del patrocinio o por la de la imposición de regulaciones (r… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Adam Smith himself made the analogy of the economy as a watch or a clock that once set in motion continues on its own. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Academia has a tendency, when unchecked (from lack of skin in the game), to evolve into a ritualistic self-referential publishing game. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
