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Here is one of my favorite @nntaleb quotes: "Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.

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Start by being nice to every person you meet. But if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him.

Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

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