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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

“Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.”

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

“An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.”

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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. 3

“I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“Only Ponzi schemes should depend on confidence. Governments should never need to “restore confidence.” Cascading rumours are a product of complex systems. Governments cannot stop the rumours. Simply, we need to be in a position to shrug off rumours, be robust in the face of them.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

“When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 102

“Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.”

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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. 57

“Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.”

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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. 7

“Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.”

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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. 29

“A man is morally free when… he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 16

“This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters — you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 209

“The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 185

“When conflicted between two choices, take neither.”

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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. 71

“We learn the most from fools … yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.”

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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. 85

“I try to make money infrequently, as infrequently as possible simply because I believe that rare events are not fairly valued, and that the rarer the event, the more undervalued it will be in price.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“Unlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.”

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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. 66

“People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.”

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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. 19

“Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.”

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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. 22

“[E]conomists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Fooled by Randomness

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Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“It is painful to think about ruthlessness as an engine of improvement.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 75

“The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.”

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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. 20

“Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.”

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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. 41

“If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 63

“History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, […] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.”

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Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 8

“The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.”

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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. 31

“The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.”

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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. 94

“I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 176 (footnote)

“The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

“[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 116

“Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness (2001)