Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "CNBC journalists are idiots."
CNBC journalists are idiots.
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"Never trust a journalist who hasn't been fired at least once."
"The greatest danger in life is not taking risks. It's taking risks without understanding them."
"Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking."
"The most important quality for a scientist is to be willing to say 'I don't know.'"
"The more you try to be rational, the more irrational you become."
About Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960)
Lebanese-American probabilist and The Black Swan (2007) author whose work on tail risk and antifragility reshaped finance and policy thinking. Closely associated with Benoit Mandelbrot (fractal mathematician, Taleb's mentor figure). For an intellectual contrast, see Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist and The Better Angels of Our Nature author — Taleb has spent the 2010s publicly attacking Pinker's data-driven 'things are getting better' optimism as naive Gaussian thinking under fat-tailed reality — the loudest public statistics argument of the decade.