Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "Be polite, but ignore comments, praise, and criticism from people you wouldn't h…"
Be polite, but ignore comments, praise, and criticism from people you wouldn't hire.
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More from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than in what you are trying to hide."
"If you lie to me, keep lying; don't hurt me by suddenly telling the truth."
"The difference between a philosopher and a fool is that the philosopher knows he is a fool."
"If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry."
"Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know."
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.