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Nassim Nicholas Taleb – amerykański ekonomista, filozof i trader pochodzenia libańskiego. Magister nauk przyrodniczych i doktor zarządzania. W swoich pracach skupia się na zagadnieniach prawdopodobieństwa, przypadkowości i niepewności. Obecnie profesor Uniwersytetu Nowojorskiego .

Autor bestsellerów Czarny Łabędź. O skutkach nieprzewidywalnych zdarzeń oraz Antykruchość. O rzeczach, którym służą wstrząsy. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Wrzesień 1960   •   Natępne imiona نسیم نقولا طالب, 나심 니컬러스 탈레브
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Cytaty po angielsku

“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”

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“It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.”

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Źródło: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.”

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

Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”

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Źródło: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone”

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

Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb książka Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist”

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

Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“We tend to use knowledge as therapy.”

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Źródło: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 69

“Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.”

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Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.”

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

Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.”

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Źródło: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.”

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Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb książka Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012)

“Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.”

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Źródło: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb książka Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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

“true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing”

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

Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination”

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Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”

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Źródło: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“To bankrupt a fool, give him information.”

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

Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!”

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

Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know”

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Źródło: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D. C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations”

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

Źródło: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.”

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Źródło: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb książka Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 4
Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.”

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Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.”

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Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.”

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Źródło: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.”

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Źródło: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p.15