Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
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 TalebWe tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.
Nassim Nicholas TalebEconomics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb