Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Biography: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is known for his work on risk analysis, probabil... more Biography: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is known for his work on risk analysis, probability, and uncertainty, particularly through his book "The Black Swan." A former trader and academic, Taleb advocates for resilience in complex systems and is a critic of predictive models. His ideas influence economics, finance, and decision-making. less

"The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions""In mathematics you don’t understand things, you just get used to them""Things always become obvious after the fact""To understand the future, you do not need techno-autistic jargon, but the wisdom of the elders""It is easier to macrobullshit than to microbullshit""We are increasingly learning to concentrate on what is important""The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding""You want to be a philosopher, not a cheap sage""The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free""To bankrupt a fool, give him information""Time is the soul of the world""A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point""Never trust the words that you read; always trust the reality behind them""We have been fragilizing the economy, our health, political life, education, almost everything by suppressing randomness and volatility""The robust is not affected by shocks, but the antifragile gets better""Missing a train is only painful if you run after it""What we call here a Black Swan is an event with the following three attributes: rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective predictability""Don't cross a river if it is on average four feet deep""The idea that complex systems with skin in the game are antifragile is crucial to building a sound view of reality""We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events"

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