Nassim Nicholas Taleb idézetek
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Idézetek angolul
Forrás: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 79
Quoted in the introduction to "A Talk with Nassim Nicholas Taleb," Edge (April 2004) http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/taleb04/taleb_index.html
Forrás: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 56
Forrás: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 65
Forrás: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 107
Forrás: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 198
Forrás: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 17
“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”
Forrás: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 15
“Consider that the turkey's experience may have, rather than no value, a negative value.”
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!
Forrás: 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.”
Forrás: Skin in the Game (2018), p. 214