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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Blackout
Experience
Looking
Next
Next Time
Recognize
Sky
Solace
Some
Take
Time
Will
You
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The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Accept
After
Experts
False
Go
Knowledge
Limits
People
Those
Who
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bad
Beyond
Economists
Events
Like
Medicine
Medieval
Predicting
Record
Simplification
Track
Track Record
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Different
Live
Think
Vastly
World
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There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Argument
Never
People
Same
Those
Try
Two
Types
Who
Win
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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Body
Engineering
Functions
Home
Human
Human Body
In Other Words
Like
Machine
Other
Problem
Run
Sophisticated
Textbook
Understood
Victims
View
Words
World
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We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Business
Culture
Dentist
Does
Drill
End
Entertainment
He
Make
Market
Money
More
Need
Own
People
Rather
Savings
Should
Stock
Stock Market
Teeth
Than
Think
Up
Use
Whatever
Who
You
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Even
Humans
Imagination
Important
Important Things
Knowing
Lack
Like
Look
Point
Things
Tomorrow
Will
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Anything
Chaos
Economic
Even
Events
Future
Had
Infinite
Know
Like
Model
Need
Order
Perfect
Phenomena
Precision
Predict
Theory
World
You
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ban
Banks
Because
Going
Pay
Price
Risk-Taking
Should
Society
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ability
Accept
America
Best
Does
Failure
Produce
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bureaucrats
Capitalism
Money
Nothing
Socialism
System
Today
Transfer
Type
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Break
Community
Financial
Grip
Need
Society
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Agency
Bank
Banker
His
Line
Neck
Problem
Trade
Trades
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When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Adaptable
Ask
Disorder
Fragile
Gains
Opposite
People
Resilient
Robust
Say
Solid
Something
Strong
Tend
You
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
About
Abstract
Constraints
Front
Having
Matters
People
Social
Talk
Write
You
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Activities
Corrupt
Other
Profane
Sacred
Them
Want
Writing
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
About
Anything
Economics
Economists
Get
Noticed
One Thing
Right
Thing
Years
Years Ago
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Accept
Better
Money
Only
Refuse
Rich
Tastes
Than
You
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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.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Around
Been
Businesses
Cannot
Corporation
Decades
Even
Few
Intact
Name
Survives
Years
You
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