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The central idea in The Black ...

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

The rationalist imagines an im...

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Antifragility is beyond resili...

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

He who has never sinned is les...

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Modernity has replaced ethics ...

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Let me be more aggressive: we ...

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

This is the tragedy of moderni...

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Many people keep deploring the...

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

But they never notice the foll...

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

I've debated many economists w...

I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

I want to live happily in a wo...

I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Further, in writing, I feel co...

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Never ask anyone for their opi...

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they haveЂ'or don't haveЂ'in their portfolio.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Suckers try to win arguments, ...

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

An erudite is someone who disp...

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Most so-called writers keep wr...

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless y...

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

I'm a private intellectual, no...

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Those who do not think that em...

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

When we want to do something w...

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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