Nassim Nicholas Taleb citáty

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„Nikdy nevěřte nikomu, kdo nosí kravatu.“

„Zmeškaný vlak mrzí jen tehdy, když se jej snažíte doběhnout.“

„Problém poznání spočívá v tom, že existuje mnohem více knih o ptactvu, které psali ornitologové, než knih o ptácích či ornitolozích, které by napsali ptáci.“

„Řek mezi Římany.— o Benoîtovi Mandelbrotovi“

„Prokrastinace je duše vzpouzející se uvěznění.“

„Obtížnost je to, co probouzí génia“

„Jedna polovina lidí lže svými rty, ta druhá svými slzami.“

“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.”

“Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense”

“When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.”

“If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”

“Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone”

“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”

“The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist”

“We tend to use knowledge as therapy.”

“Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.”

“What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.”

“Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.”

“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.”

“He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.”

“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.”

“Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese.”

“true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing”

“The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination”

“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”

“To bankrupt a fool, give him information.”

“By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!”

“The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know”

“In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D. C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations”

“I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.”

“I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.”

“The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.”

“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.”

“This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.”

“My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism”

“Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.”