Quotes About Nassim

to avoid dullness may help to filter out the nonessential.)

hold that uncertainty is our discipline, and that understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human pursuit.

he had already been financially independent

I would be now brainwashed into thinking that uncertainty was something to be found in a casino

So, "giving advice" as a sales pitch is fundamentally unethical—selling cannot be deemed advice.

His argument was criticized for being rather incomplete.

but because most unseasoned ideas are fragile.

this attribute is universal to all our activities: there is something in us designed to protect our self-esteem.

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

El lector podrá observar en esta falacia del viaje de ida y vuelta la injusticia de los estereotipos;

the ultimate test of whether you like an author is if you've reread him)

I have always hated employment and the associated dependence on someone else's arbitrary opinion

Time is the expert. Or, rather, the temperamental and ruthless Lindy, as we see in the next chapter.

Time is an eraser rather than a builder, and a good one at breaking the fragile—whether buildings or ideas.

These two mistakes are quite telling because, in both cases, the benefits appeared to be obvious and immediate, though small, and the harm remained delayed for years

the burden of proof lies on someone disturbing a complex system, not on the person protecting the status quo.