Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "Business folk are all scoundrels."
Business folk are all scoundrels.
Business folk are all scoundrels.
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"Beware of people who are always happy."
"Please, don't drive a school bus blindfolded."
"If you want to annoy a academic, tell him that his work is 'interesting.'"
"The only way to be a philosopher is to practice what you preach—and the only way to practice what you preach is to be a philosopher."
"The greatest minds are those who can simplify complex ideas without distorting them."
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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