A country’s assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wittgenstein’s ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb