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"Socialism, def: a political system where decisions are made by people with advanced degrees in social "science"." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #socialism

"A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The sucker problem is to think that those for whom you feel compassion would also feel compassion for those weaker and more afflicted than they are." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Different people rarely mean the same thing by religion. Nor do they realise it. For early Jews & Muslims, religion was law. ‘Deen’ is law in Hebrew, religion in Arabic. " - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"I treat my friends as temporary pre-enemies, my enemies as temporary pre-friends, and my post-friends as permanent enemies. The Bed of Procrustes" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Perhaps the wise one is the one who knows that he cannot see things far away." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan

"Progress, like evolution, must be neither too slow nor too fast. Too slow means extinction from lack of adaptation. Too fast prevents retaining the benefits of past improvements, hence, again, extinction." - Nassim Taleb #progress

"Never hire an A student unless it is to take exams." - @nntaleb

"The dream of having computers behave like humans is coming true, with the transformation, in a single generation, of humans into computers." - Nassim Taleb

"A prediction is wrong only if it costs you something. A prediction is right only if it makes you something. The rest is tawk. #skininthegame." - @nntaleb

"Freedom is never free. It requires risk taking. " - Nassim Taleb #SkinInthegame

"We tend to use knowledge as therapy." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan

"Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer, and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"There were no migrations in the Middle ages except towards empty steppes." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #genetics

"It is also related to a problem called denigration of history, as gamblers, investors, and decision-makers feel that the sorts of things that happen to others would not necessarily happen to them." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Fooled by Randomness