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"Never eat anything that your great-grandmother would not recognize as food."
"Please, don't drive a school bus blindfolded."
"The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich don't work for money—they make money work for them."
"I like Mondays more than I like lazy Sundays. I live for this sh*t."
"The only people who think that a billion dollars isn't enough are those who have at least a billion dollars."
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.
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