Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotes
An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
p. 184
The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
p. 20
It is painful to think about ruthlessness as an engine of improvement.
p. 75
This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...
p. 84
Compromising is condoning. The only modern dictum I follow one by George Santayana: A man is morally free when... he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.
p. 16
Seeing the psychologist Steven Pinker making pronouncements about things intellectual has a similar effect to encountering a drive-in Burger King while hiking in the middle of a national park.
p. 43
If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
p. 15
Randomness works well in search—sometimes better than humans.
p. 103
A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.
p. 147
[I]n academia there is no difference between academia and the real world; in the real world, there is.
p. 3
Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.
p. 23
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
