Nassim Nicholas Taleb quotes

" My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know.... " # Money # Knowledge # Love

" It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear. " # Failure # Success # Character

" Unlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality. " # Risk # Love # Reality

" A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point. " # Mistakes

" I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns. " # Nations

" I try to make money infrequently, as infrequently as possible simply because I believe that rare events are not fairly valued, and that the rarer the event, the more undervalued it will be in price. " # self-esteem # Thoughts and Thinking # Money

" The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it. " # Information # Mathematics # Research

" At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead. " # Death and Dying

" Science evolves from funeral to funeral. " # Science and Scientists # Funerals # Death and Dying

" Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive. " # Belief # Fear # Motivation