Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Technology, Differences, Slavery

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.40, Random House

• All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Technology, Maximizing

  "Always expect the unexpected". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.wired.com. April 1, 2007.

• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Technology, Guy, Noise

  "Nassim Taleb: 'Big corporations will always fail'". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

• The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Technology, Opposites, Cowardice

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.16, Random House

• You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Being Yourself, Jobs, School

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1755, Random House

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