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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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The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse.

Keeping ones distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

For the ancients, forecasting historical events was an insult to the God(s); for me, it is an insult to man—that is, for some, to science.

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