Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.
Nassim Nicholas TalebI'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
Nassim Nicholas TalebIt is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.
Nassim Nicholas TalebFurther, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb