“ Remember that for an event to be a Black Swan, it does not just have to be rare, or just wild; it has to be unexpected, has to lie outside our tunnel of possibilities. You must be a sucker for it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Questo stimolo all’acquisto di cose nuove che sono destinate a perdere le loro caratteristiche di novità, soprattutto se paragonate a quelle ancora più nuove, viene definito effetto tapis roulant (tre… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Psychologists have shown the irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ People don’t walk around with anti-résumés telling you what they have not studied or experienced (it’s the job of their competitors to do that), but it would be nice if they did. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Pasteur said, like all great discoverers, he knew something about accidental discoveries. The best way to get maximal exposure is to keep researching. Collect opportunities Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ One of the most irritating conversations I’ve had is with people who lecture me on how I should behave. Most of us know pretty much how we should behave. It is the execution that is the problem, not t… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Not only is it difficult for the journalist to think more like a historian, but it is, alas, the historian who is becoming more like the journalist. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ No person in a transaction should have certainty about the outcome while the other one has uncertainty. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ My problem is that I am not rational and I am extremely prone to drown in randomness and to incur emotional torture. I am aware of my need to ruminate on park benches and in cafés away from informatio… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privil… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ More than two thousand years ago, the Roman orator, belletrist, thinker, Stoic, manipulator-politician, and (usually) virtuous gentleman, Marcus Tullius Cicero, presented the following story. One Diag… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Montaigne was neither one of the academics of the Sorbonne nor a professional man of letters, and he was not these things on two planes. First, he was a doer; he had been a magistrate, a businessman,… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Monsieur de Norpois is made to be ashamed of the fact that he expressed a different opinion. Proust did not consider that the diplomat might have changed his mind. We Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ Linear relationships are truly the exception; we only focus on them in classrooms and textbooks because they are easier to understand. Yesterday Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ La forma de evitar los males de la falacia narrativa es favorecer la experimentación sobre la narración, la experiencia sobre la historia y el conocimiento clínico sobre las teorías. Es evidente que u… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor, inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrad… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It is generally accepted that harm from doctors—not including risks from hospital germs—accounts for more deaths than any single cancer. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life— with the ironic result of making the world a lot more unpredictable, as if the goddesses of ch… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ In their intense meditation the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them and they listen reverently while in the street outside the people hear nothing at all. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ In short, the fragilista (medical, economic, social planning) is one who makes you engage in policies and actions, all artificial, in which the benefits are small and visible, and the side effects pot… Nassim Nicholas Taleb
