There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.
Nassim Nicholas TalebCharm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse
Nassim Nicholas TalebPeople work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.
Nassim Nicholas TalebWe know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb