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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Arabic: نسيم نقولا طالب‎, alternatively Nessim or Nissim, born 1960) is a Lebanese–American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan was described in a review by The Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II.

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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Austerity, Democracies, Democracy, Measures, Wells

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Poetry, Want, Annoying, Explain, Poet

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

Business, Misunderstand, Needs, Understand, World

It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them. . . For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.

Benefits, Errors, Harm, Mistake, Rest

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

Book, History, Names, Race, Silent, Unfair

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

Boundaries, Categories, Categorizing, Humans, People

Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

Envelope, Know, Party, Send, Serendipity, Suffering

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

Atheist, Empiricist, Imagine, Imagines, Imbeciles, Society

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

Belief, Liquor, Religions, Restaurants, Rules

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

Alan, Greenspan, Seriously, Take, Unskilled

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Wit, Seducing, Nerdiness, Seduces, Signaling

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

Gullible, People, Sceptical, Things, Wrong Things

Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.

Blow, Real, Risk, Risks, Stable

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

Erudition, Half, Idiot, Intelligent, Men

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

Avoiding, Irrelevant, Patterns, Thinking, World

You need a story to displace a story.

Displace, Needs, Stories, Story

I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism

Allow, Classical, Humility, Mother, Robust, Years

When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

Agency, Bankers, Lines, Neck, Trades

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

Humility, Marketing, Shyness, Surprise, True

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

Array, Future, Laughing, May, Owing, Realize

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