Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating snowballs and arbitrary and unpredictable planet-wide winner-take-all effects.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.