Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom

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"A half-man (or, rather, half-person) is not someone who does not have an opinion, just someone who does not take risks for it." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile

"The four most infuential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine—and nonperishable—work within institutions." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"To make ethical choices you cannot have dilemmas between the particular (friends, family) and the general." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Society is being destroyed by schools and college teachers. Your children are indocrinated by people who are doing what they are doing because of their limited intellect and practical skills. And the costs TO YOU of such indocrination are ballooning." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"No person in a transaction should have certainty about the outcome while the other one has uncertainty." - Nassim Taleb

"Time spent on revenge is never wasted." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"Well kept secret: for selfowned people, unlike the rest, the ability to make money (hence make decisions) does not really decline with age." - Nassim Taleb #SecretWisdom

"People don't like it when you ask them for help; they also feel left out when you don't ask them for help." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"One of the problems with social networks is that it is getting harder and harder for others to complain about you behind your back." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"People feel totally lost (& deep anxiety) finding out that someone they held for stupid is actually more intelligent than they are." - @nntaleb

"Progress is almost never linear. Ups and downs and bursts." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #progress

"The ancient Mediterranean : before monotheism, people changed and exchanged rites and gods as we do with ethnic food." - @nntaleb

"To bankrupt a fool, give him information." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game

"You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement." - @nntaleb

"Never take an advice from a salesman, or any advice that benefits the advice giver." - @nntaleb

"Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother." - @nntaleb

"We find it to be in extremely bad taste for individuals to boast of their accomplishments; but when countries do so we call it “national pride.”" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes