“If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 46
Quotes from book
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published on November 27, 2012, by Random House in the United States and Penguin in the United Kingdom. This book builds upon ideas from his previous works including Fooled by Randomness , The Black Swan , and The Bed of Procrustes and is the fourth book in the five-volume philosophical treatise on uncertainty titled Incerto. Some of the ideas are expanded in Taleb’s fifth book Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life .
“Simplicity is not so simple to attain.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 11
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 102
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 16
“It is painful to think about ruthlessness as an engine of improvement.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 75
“If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 63
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 176 (footnote)
“[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 116
“Half of life—the interesting half of life—we don't even have a name for.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 33
“The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 62
“Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 55
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 15
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 122
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 49
“A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 147
“An option hides where we don't want it to hide.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 184
“Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 127
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 79
“This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing …”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 84
“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 15
