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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
: 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....
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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
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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....
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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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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.
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A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.
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I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.
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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.
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.
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Science evolves from funeral to funeral.
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Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
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