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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
"The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know"
"Randomness is indistinguishable from complicated, undirected effort"
"I've got some good news for you: you don’t have to buy insurance"
"What you know is a function of what you have been exposed to"
"The general principle is that the solution does not have to be in the form of what you see"
"Some events, you don't know how they are going to end"
"Wealth does not count, attention counts"
"People don't know about risk, uncertainty, and surety"
"You will get the best prediction of the future from the realization that the predictive power of the past has never been good at making future predictions"
"The more egregious the failure, the more important it is of first-order importance, not second-order importance"
"The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions"
"In mathematics you don’t understand things, you just get used to them"
"Things always become obvious after the fact"
"To understand the future, you do not need techno-autistic jargon, but the wisdom of the elders"
"It is easier to macrobullshit than to microbullshit"
"We are increasingly learning to concentrate on what is important"
"The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding"
"You want to be a philosopher, not a cheap sage"
"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free"
"To bankrupt a fool, give him information"
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