Quotes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Normalmente, cuando decimos que alguien sabe escuchar es que tiene una indiferencia muy lograda.

she may have been happier before the Black Swan of her success than after.

Trial and error means trying a lot.

the larger and more complex the education sector, the less obvious any links to productivity become.

mostly cosmetic variations

As club members know, the very purpose of a club is exclusion and size limitation.

A very rarely discussed property of data: it is toxic in large quantities

The scientific association with a big idea, the "brand name," goes to the one who connects the dots, not the one who makes a casual observation—even Charles Darwin, who uncultured scientists claim "invented" the survival of the fittest, was not the first to mention it.

It is more difficult to be a loser in a game you set up yourself.

Burn old logs. Drink old wine. Read old books. Keep old friends.

American culture encourages the process of failure, unlike the cultures of Europe and Asia where failure is met with stigma and embarrassment.

This point has applications in evolutionary biology, evolutionary game theory, and conflict situations. A mild degree of unpredictability in your behavior can help you to protect yourself in situations of conflict.

Fat Tony did not believe in predictions.

you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions.

it seems that we notice differences between versions rather than commonalities.

He managed to lift him off the ground

Outside of that it is the magnitude that counts.

that they wouldn't advertise it so loudly if it weren't good for their bottom line.

When he blew up, close to a couple of decades of performance were overshadowed by a single event that only lasted a few minutes.

Independence is person-specific: I have always been taken aback at the high number of people in whom an astonishingly high income led to additional sycophancy as they became more dependent on their clients and employers and more addicted to making even more money.)

We have been fragilizing the economy, our health, political life, education, almost everything Ã¢â'¬Â¦ by suppressing randomness and volatility. Just as spending a month in bed (preferably with an unabridged version of War and Peace and access to The Sopranos' entire eighty-six episodes) leads to muscle atrophy, complex systems are weakened, even killed, when deprived of stressors.

Clearly you cannot manufacture more information than the past can deliver; if you buy one hundred copies of The New York Times, I am not too certain that it would help you gain incremental knowledge of the future. We just don't know how much information there is in the past.

Someone who predicts will be fragile to prediction errors.

You are taking the joy of ignorance out of the things we don't understand.