Lebanese - Scientist | 1960 -
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
HomeWordsWorldEngineeringProblem
The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
PeopleHurtAmericanProblemFind
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.
FinancialCareThanksSystemGoing
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
IntellectualPublicPrivate
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
NatureGrowStrongerYouBodyGym
Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
BankOutSystemEveryMakesSafer
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.
FutureChaosWorldYouPerfectKnow
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
FailureBestAmericaAcceptAbility
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
SocietyDangerPaul
If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
SchoolYouThreeListenSideGoing
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
KnowledgePeopleLimitsGoAccept
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
HappinessUglyHumanityOutTrade
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