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Nassim Nicholas Taleb est un écrivain, statisticien et essayiste spécialisé en épistémologie des probabilités et un praticien en mathématiques financières libano-américain.

Il est actuellement professeur d'ingénierie du risque à l'Institut polytechnique de l'université de New York,,.

Proche du mathématicien Benoît Mandelbrot et du psychologue Daniel Kahneman , Nassim Nicholas Taleb est surnommé « le dissident de Wall Street » sur les marchés financiers internationaux. Spécialisé dans l'évaluation des risques d’événements rares et imprévus, il a été courtier en bourse pendant 20 ans à New York et à Londres avant de devenir professeur.

Il a notamment adapté la théorie du cygne noir au domaine statistique et à la prise de décision sous incertitude. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. septembre 1960   •   Autres noms نسیم نقولا طالب, 나심 니컬러스 탈레브
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“Je préférerais être bête et antifragile qu’extrêmement intelligent et fragile, à n’importe quel moment.”

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Antifragile: Les bienfaits du désordre

“Le processus de la découverte (ou de l’innovation, ou du progrès technologique) dépend lui-même d’un bricolage antifragile, d’une brusque prise de risques plutôt que d’une culture formelle.”

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Antifragile: Les bienfaits du désordre

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Citations en anglais

“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”

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“It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist”

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“We tend to use knowledge as therapy.”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 69

“Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.”

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“Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012)

“Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.”

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Source: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 15

“true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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“The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination”

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“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“To bankrupt a fool, give him information.”

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“By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!”

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“The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D. C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations”

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“I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 4
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p.15