“ Assume that someone tells you that the probability of an event is exactly zero. You ask him where he got this from. Baal told me is the answer. In such case, the person is coherent, but would be deeme… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Aside from the non-narrative view of things, another lesson. People with too much smoke and complicated tricks and methods in their brains start missing elementary, very elementary things. Persons in… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ As the skeptics’ main teaching was that nothing could be accepted with certainty, conclusions of various degrees of probability could be formed, and these supplied a guide to conduct. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ As a member of the Christian minority in the Near East, I can vouch that commerce, particularly small commerce, is the door to tolerance—the only door, in my opinion, to any form of tolerance. It beat… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ As a child of civil war, I disbelieve in structured learning—actually I believe that one can be an intellectual without being a nerd, provided one has a private library instead of a classroom, and spe… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ And when you take risks, insults by half-men (small men, those who don’t risk anything) are similar to barks by nonhuman animals: you can’t feel insulted by a dog. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ And the key phrase reverberating in Seneca’s oeuvre is nihil perditi, I lost nothing, after an adverse event. Stoicism Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ And of course you learn from the errors of others. You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ An insight into how the mechanisms of religion and the transmission of morals obey the same renormalization dynamics as dietary laws—and how we can show that morality is more likely to be something en… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Alas, we are not manufactured, in our current edition of the human race, to understand abstract matters—we need context. Randomness and uncertainty are abstractions. We respect what has happened, igno… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ A good book gets better on the second reading. A great book on the third. Any book not worth rereading isn’t worth reading. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ A civil servant can make rules that are friendly to an industry such as banking—and then go off to J.P. Morgan and recoup a multiple of the difference between his or her current salary and the market… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ A) The more nonlinear, the more the function of something divorces itself from the something. If traffic were linear, then there would be no difference in traffic time between the two following situat… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Мы, люди, не просто крайне поверхностны (это еще можно было бы както исправить) — мы очень несправедливы. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ ¿No es extraño ver que un suceso se produce precisamente porque no se esperaba que fuera a ocurrir? ¿Qué tipo de defensa tenemos contra ello? Cualquier cosa que se nos ocurra (que Nueva York es un bla… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Positive Black Swans have a necessary first step: you need to be exposed to them. Many people do not realize that they are getting a lucky break in life when they get it. If Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ People overreact to low-probability outcomes when you discuss the event with them, when you make them aware of it. If Nassim Nicholas Taleb
