Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

...avoidance of small mistakes makes the large ones more severe.

Organisms need, to use the metaphor of Marcus Aurelius, to turn obstacles into fuel just as fire does.

In academia, there is no difference between academia & the real world. In the real world, there is. (inspired by Yogi Berra)

Ireland, Czeck Rep., Slovakia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Cyprus... People get along better as neighbors than as roommates. Time for Syrians to understand the large Nation-State with "grandeur" & prestige has failed them, destroyed minorities. Small is beautiful.

Adam Smith himself made the analogy of the economy as a watch or a clock that once set in motion continues on its own.

autodidact = a self-taught person; a person who teaches himself or herself, rather than being taught by a teacher. - TW Admin

Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency exceeds what you wish to show your neighbor.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

I suspect that they put Socrates to death because there is something terribly unattractive, alienating, and nonhuman in thinking with too much clarity.

There should be no privilege for being wealthy. But there should be no shame, no guilt for being wealthy.

How can I trust you when I can't trust me

Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside

Academics, when they leave academia become at best back-office support staff, not decision-makers. Not like the grocery store owner who owns his own risk.

A philosopher uses logic without statistics, an economist uses statistics without logic, a physicist uses both.

If the student is smart, the teacher takes the credit.