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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Lebanese - Scientist | 1960 -

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

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People Wrong Things Gullible Most

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

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School Me Stop System Because Tried

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

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Hope Day Writing Find Say Something

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

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People You Talk Matters Write Front

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

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Technology Free Options About Really

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

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Art Religion I Am Small Want Things

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

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Capitalism Everyone Order Compete

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

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Mistakes People Capitalism Others

I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

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Water Doctor India Go Drink Drop

I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

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I Am Injuries Bad Lift Heavy Sprint

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

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God Religion Arrogance Human Outside

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.

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People Strong You Say Ask Fragile

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