Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Talebis a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan was described in a review by the Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionScientist
CountryLebanon
Nassim Nicholas Taleb quotes about
academia prostitution
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
winning argument persons
You never win an argument until they attack your person.
risk illusion randomness
This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...
confusion
Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
ethics good-things contagious
Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
goodbye ideas care
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
envy looks wealth
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
respect decision someday
It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.
ignorance acceptance odds
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
hero heroic behavior
Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
use therapy
We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
laughing owing may
Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.
average maximum
Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum
expectations pay probability
Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.