Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

• When you beat up someone physically, you get exercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

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• People focus on role models; it is more effective to find anti models – people you don’t want to resemble when you grow up.

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• Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone.

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• My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal.

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• The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.

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• They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status – but rarely for your wisdom.

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• Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of absence.

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• What I learned on my own I still remember.

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• Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.

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• Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.

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• Love without sacrifice is like theft.

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• Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators.

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• The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist.

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• The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination.

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• Wit seduced by signaling intelligence without nerdiness

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• Things always become obvious after the fact.

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

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (37)

Birth:	1960
Nationality:	American, Lebanese
Profession:	Author, Essayist, Professor, Researcher, Statistician

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