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• Information is bad for knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Information

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.142, Random House

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• Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

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  Alternatives, Looks, Economics

  "Good Bye! The Reappointment Of Bernanke Is Too Much To Bear" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

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  War, Fighting, Lasts

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.46, Random House

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• It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

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  Independent, Wealthy, Harder

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Jan 03, 2012

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• We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

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  Business, Want, Derivatives

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• Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

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  Procrastination, Soul, Entrapment

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Sep 27, 2010

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• Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

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  Work, Bmw, Serendipity

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• Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

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  Book, Reading, Unread Books

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.777, Random House

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• I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

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  Business, Punishment, Want

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• I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

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  School, Daydreaming, Hated

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• I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism

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  Mother, Humility, Years

  "The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Real, Book, Knowledge

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• I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

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  Common Sense, Age, Collections

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• Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.

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  Association, Faces, Social

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1744, Random House

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• Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

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  Stress, Modern Life, Life Is

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.64, Random House

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• Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

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  Waste, Unusual, Ambiguous

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.45, Random House

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• My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

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  People, Quality, Hobbies

  "We still have the same disease" by Margaret Wente, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 13, 2009.

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• It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Together

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.192, Random House

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• A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

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  Risk, Surface, Courses

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

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  Tragedy, Boring, Virtue

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.63, Random House

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• You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

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  Years, Names, Corporations

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

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• This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

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  Risk, Illusion, Randomness

  "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012.

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• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

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  Democracy, Austerity, Wells

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• People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.

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  Stress, People, Work Out

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

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  Art, Writing, Oneself

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.45, Random House

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