1) Never read a book that can be adequately summarized. 2) Never read a book you would not reread. 3) No book that can be shortened survives. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Transportation didnt get safer just because people learn from errors, but because the system does. The experience of the system is different from that of individuals; it is grounded in filtering.

It is much easier for a criminal to fake being an honest person than for an honest person to fake being a criminal. Likewise it is easier for a fat-tailed distribution to fake being thin tailed than for a thin-tailed distributions to fake being fat tailed.

That's it for April's Top 10 @TalebWisdom quotes (+ a bonus).

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