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“There is no such thing as a failed soldier, dead or alive (unless he acted in a cowardly manner)—likewise there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur or failed scientific researcher …”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 79

“The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 56

“The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 65

“We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes —fragile otherwise.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 107

“While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.”

Источник: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 198

“Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 17

“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 15

“Consider that the turkey's experience may have, rather than no value, a negative value.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга The Black Swan

It learned from observation, as we are all advised to do (hey, after all, this is what is believed to be the scientific method). Its confidence increased as the number of friendly feedings grew, and it felt increasingly safe even though the slaughter was more and more imminent. Consider that the feeling of safety reached its maximum when the risk was at the highest!
Источник: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), pp. 40–41 (Taleb attributes the parable of the turkey to Bertrand Russell, who originally wrote of a chicken.)

“Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Skin in the Game

Источник: Skin in the Game (2018), p. 214

“Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Skin in the Game

Источник: Skin in the Game (2018), p. 23