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The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
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...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
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