Quotes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Less is more: Truth is lost with too much altercation

Things are not as simple as that. We

The overlap between newspapers was so large that you would get less and less information the more you read.

There are many things without words, matters that we know and can act on but cannot describe direcly, cannot capture in human language or within the narrow human concepts that are available to us.

Things designed by people without skin in the game tend to grow in complication (before their final collapse).

But to do things right, they ought to learn to keep silent in the absence of news of significance.

Remain sober and remember to watch out).

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So many instincts drive us.

I know very few people who, when they say they want to do something, end up doing it.

but would treat cost of search as "loss.

My being here is a consequential low-probability occurrence, and I tend to forget it.

if you seek certainty about whether the patient has cancer, not certainty about whether he is healthy, then you might be satisfied with negative inference, since it will supply you the certainty you seek.

The Platonic fold is the explosive boundary where the Platonic mind-set enters in contact with messy reality, where the gap between what you know and what you think you know becomes dangerously wide. It is here that the Black Swan is produced.

Contrary to popular belief, these small, seemingly harmless stressors do not strengthen you; they can amputate part of your self.

Metaphors and stories are far more potent (alas) than ideas;

He did not even bother to have a desk, let alone an office.

Scranton showed that we have been building and using jet engines in a completely trial-and-error experiential manner, without anyone truly understanding the theory. Builders

I am renewable, not humanity or the ecosystem.

Now, if you run away, all you need to be is just faster than me, not faster than the animal.

But you are already there; why take more risks?

A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation, and close adult supervision.

Some blindness to the odds or an obsession with their own positive Black Swan is necessary for entrepreneurs to function. The

which requires day-to-day monitoring.