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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

“But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p.58

“It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag, a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label "Lebanese," preferring the less restrictive "Levantine" designation.”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 5

“You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.”

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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 (2010), p. 17

“Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.”

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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 (2010), p. 30

“There is a certain category of fool—the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic "scientist", the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call "epistemic arrogance", this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.”

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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 (2010), p. 106

“What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable … no matter how much hate mail I get.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 138

“In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.”

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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 (2010), p. 4

“It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.”

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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 (2010), p. 78

“Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 171

“Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.”

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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 (2010), p. 21

“Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.”

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"Learning to Expect the Unexpected," http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/taleb04/taleb_index.html The New York Times (2004-04-08}

“You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment and make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race.”

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“It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.”

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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 (2010), p. 9

“You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.”

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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 (2010), p. 27

“What they call “play” (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.”

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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 (2010), p. 40

“Wittgenstein's ruler: "Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler."”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Fooled by Randomness

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Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 101

“You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. 'Educated philistines' have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets.”

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Skin in the Game (2018)

“It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.”

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Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world (2009)

“Someone who says “I am busy” is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.”

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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 (2010), p. 26

“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), pp. 10–11

“We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.”

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"Learning to Expect the Unexpected," The New York Times (2004-04-08}

“The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.”

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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 (2010), p. 87

“A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.”

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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 (2010), p. 21

“When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.”

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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 (2010), p. 9

“Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 109

“For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.”

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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 (2010), p. 84

“The antifragility of the higher level may require the fragility—and sacrifice—of the lower one.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 74