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"The very idea of freedom of expression is to allow someone to tell others things they do not like to hear." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #freedom

"If a pilot crashes a plane, N=1 is not anecdote, if he doesn't crash the plane, N=100 is anecdote." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Never get into a business partnership with a retired lawyer unless he has another hobby." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

""Making sense and being right are not the same ting" (sic) -- Fat Tony #skininthegame " - Nassim Taleb

"The epiphany I had in my career in randomness came when I understood that I was not intelligent enough, nor strong enough, to even try to fight my emotions." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Love of humanity doesn't force you to open your living room to ALL passers by. But you may invite a few. Complex systems are stratified." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #immigration

"Sometimes people ask you a question with their eyes begging you to not tell them the truth." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"There is this prevailing illusion that debt is a renewable resource." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #debt

"The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes amazon.com/gp/product/198…

"If you are famous, rich, or prominent, avoid people whose friends are all famous, rich, or prominent." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #advice

"The cult of the youth (by the youth) results from an elementary logical fallacy. If 90% of successful innovations come from the young, less than 1/1000 of innovations by youth work. Statistically, youth correlates w/mediocrity, sloth, physical weakness, & lack of creativity."

"You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justi􀀬cation and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes amazon.com/gp/product/198…

"The iatrogenics is in the patient, not in the treatment. If the patient is close to death, all speculative treatments should be encouraged no holds barred. Conversely, if the patient is near healthy, then Mother Nature should be the doctor." - Taleb

"I am still looking for someone to give a rigorous explanation/explanation of difference between populism & democracy. Nothing yet." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #democracy

"What we call “business books” is an eliminative category invented by bookstores for writings that have no depth, no style, no empirical rigor, and no linguistic sophistication." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"Be polite, courteous, and gentle, but ignore comments, praise, and criticism from people you wouldn't hire." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do—something people who take showers discover on occasion." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"Unpublished pictures are worth a lot more than published ones. #NationalEnquirer #UmbertoEcosLibrary" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"In any profession, 90% of people are clueless but work by situational imitation, narrow mimicry & semi-conscious role-playing. Except social "science" and journalism where it is 99% and 100%, respectively." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Distributive justice isn't taking from a risk taker who earned honorably, it is keeping his probability of losing it very high." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb