Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "Attention authors: if a reviewer writes an unfair review of your work, contact m…"

"The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know."

"To understand the world, you must be a generalist. To make a living, you must be a specialist."

"The last guy I had was a fucking dick. He wanted to be artsy fartsy. You're OK."

"I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with t…"

"If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don't do it. Obvious decisions (robust to error) …"