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“The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.”

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

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 20

“Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.”

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

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 41

“If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 63

“History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, […] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.”

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Источник: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 8

“The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.”

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

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 31

“The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.”

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

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 94

“I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 176 (footnote)

“The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 116

“Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty.”

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

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 25

“It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“Half of life—the interesting half of life—we don't even have a name for.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 33

“The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 62

“Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 55

“Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.”

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

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 68

“I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity’s phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism.”

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

Источник: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), pp. 107-108

“Probability is a liberal art; it is a child of skepticism, not a tool for people with calculators on their belts to satisfy their desire to produce fancy calculations and certainties.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Источник: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 128

“The economics establishment (universities, regulators, central bankers, government officials, various organisations staffed with economists) lost its legitimacy with the failure of the system. It is irresponsible and foolish to put our trust in the ability of such experts to get us out of this mess. Instead, find the smart people whose hands are clean.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5d5aa24e-23a4-11de-996a-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1, Financial Times, 2009-04-07.
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world (2009)

“At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb книга Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)