Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 156
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Cytaty po angielsku
“What I learned on my own I still remember”
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.”
Źródło: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 26
“My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal”
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius”
Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.”
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 27
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.”
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 4
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing …”
Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 84
“Love without sacrifice is like theft”
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.”
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 30
Źródło: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Źródło: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 60
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see”
Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms