Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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American author · American · 1960

Lebanese-American author (born 1960)

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“All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Free Options Really

“The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ev...”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Internet Information Small

“We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Pay Price Going

“We 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 hav...”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
World Chaos Know

“Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
absence evidence medicine quip

“. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating s...”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
mathematics

“Luck is the grand equalizer.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
mathematics

“Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
fact

“To bankrupt a fool, give him information.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
information