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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Lebanese - Scientist | 1960 -

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

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Technology Small Internet Information

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

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Peace War Predict Lead Tension Able

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

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Loneliness Suffering Poverty Others

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

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Success Feeling Newspaper Shame Some

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

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Car Water Food Moving Drive Never

I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

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I Am Happy Rich I Am Happy Brooklyn

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

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Society Price Pay Going Because Ban

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.

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Problem Bank Line Neck Trade Agency

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

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You Seriously Take Unskilled Alan

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

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Children You Know More Critical

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

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Writing Want Corrupt Activities Them

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

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Quality Volatility Things Vulnerable

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