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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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“The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.”

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

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 56

“The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.”

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

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 65

“We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes —fragile otherwise.”

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

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 107

“While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.”

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 198

“Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.”

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

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 17

“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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

“Consider that the turkey's experience may have, rather than no value, a negative value.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre The Black Swan

It learned from observation, as we are all advised to do (hey, after all, this is what is believed to be the scientific method). Its confidence increased as the number of friendly feedings grew, and it felt increasingly safe even though the slaughter was more and more imminent. Consider that the feeling of safety reached its maximum when the risk was at the highest!
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), pp. 40–41 (Taleb attributes the parable of the turkey to Bertrand Russell, who originally wrote of a chicken.)

“Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb livre Skin in the Game

Source: Skin in the Game (2018), p. 214