Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

• Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Library, Owners

• Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Real, Book, Knowledge

• Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Writing, Mean, Ideas

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.15, Random House

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