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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
"The Black Swan is the new bird at dawn"
"The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history"
"The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary"
"If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud"
"Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same. The antifragile gets better"
"It is much easier to scam people for billions than it is to scam them for millions"
"We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events"
"The idea that complex systems with skin in the game are antifragile is crucial to building a sound view of reality"
"Don't cross a river if it is on average four feet deep"
"What we call here a Black Swan is an event with the following three attributes: rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective predictability"
"Missing a train is only painful if you run after it"
"The robust is not affected by shocks, but the antifragile gets better"
"We have been fragilizing the economy, our health, political life, education, almost everything by suppressing randomness and volatility"
"Never trust the words that you read; always trust the reality behind them"
"A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point"
"Time is the soul of the world"
