Top 367 Quotes & Sayings by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Page 7

Luck is the grand equalizer.

Political life loves some volatility.

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

Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.

People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because "it's my job."

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.