Category: Recommendations

"Beware of calm waters." Nassim Taleb Fooled by Randomness Nassim Taleb is a writer and thinker.  He grew up in...

"Other people's patterns of expenditures and consumption are highly irrational and slightly immoral." From...

"The broader the look, the better the lesson." Nassim Taleb Fooled By Randomness Nassim Taleb is a writer and...

"In the most favorable circumstances, achievement cannot exceed the square root of expectations." From Issawi's...

"Even the cheapest misers can be generous with advise." Nassim Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and...

"Society is a mule, not a car. One cannot just press on the accelerator and go exactly where one wishes." From...

"The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist imagines an imbecile-proof one." Nassim...

"Engineers can compute but not define, mathematicians can define but not compute, economists can neither define nor...

"It takes a lot of intellect and confidence to accept that what makes sense really doesn't make sense." Nassim...

"A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence." Nassim Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical...