A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
Nassim Nicholas TalebAs countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.
Nassim Nicholas TalebThe inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history
Nassim Nicholas TalebWhat organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb