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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, born in 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon, is a distinguished author and scholar known for his work on probability, uncertainty, and risk. His seminal book, "The Black Swan" (2007), explores the impact of rare and unpredictable events, coining the term "black swan" to describe these phenomena. more Nassim Nicholas Taleb, born in 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon, is a distinguished author and scholar known for his work on probability, uncertainty, and risk. His seminal book, "The Black Swan" (2007), explores the impact of rare and unpredictable events, coining the term "black swan" to describe these phenomena. Taleb also authored the influential five-volume series "Incerto," which includes "Fooled by Randomness" (2001) and "Antifragile" (2012). He has held various academic positions, including Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. Taleb's unique insights blend mathematical rigor with philosophical inquiry, setting him apart in the fields of economics and risk management. less

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"An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion"
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"A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play"
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"Living things are long volatility, equity is short volatility"
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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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"The problem with information is not that it is exploited legally or illegally, but that it is no longer reliable"
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"The fooled-by-randomness effect applies to both the forecasters and those misled by their forecasts"
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"It is nonhabitability, more than any other factor, that determines our potential for antifragility"
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"The main point of financial opacity is that what is debatable remains hidden"
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"The paradox of technology is that it makes what we know obsolete, while creating brand new uncertainties"
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"The difference between doctors and patients is that doctors are far less likely to know what they don’t know"
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"Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination"
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"You can only control your attempt at loving, not the actual behavior"
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"What we observe is not a pure randomness, but a mixture of order and disorder, of patterns and chaos, of regularities and irregularities"
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"The main difference between government bailouts and charity is the recipient’s acknowledgment and the preparatory process"
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"It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident"
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