Quotes by : Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others the rest is either shyness or good marketing....

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

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

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we....

Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly)....

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally....

Why do we keep focusing on the minutiae, not the possible significant large events, in spite of the obvious....

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail....