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Danh ngôn của Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Sứ mệnh: 7)

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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 have anything like that.
All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.