Talebian Wisdom August 23, 2013
"Beware of calm waters." Nassim Taleb Fooled by Randomness Nassim Taleb is a writer and thinker. He grew up in...
Category: Maxims
Issawi’s Laws August 21, 2013
"Other people's patterns of expenditures and consumption are highly irrational and slightly immoral." From...
Maxim August 20, 2013
"Is it possible to harness the spontaneous orders that produced the iPhone - innovation, evolution, choice - and...
Talebian Wisdom August 16, 2013
"The broader the look, the better the lesson." Nassim Taleb Fooled By Randomness Nassim Taleb is a writer and...
Issawi’s Laws August 14, 2013
"In the most favorable circumstances, achievement cannot exceed the square root of expectations." From Issawi's...
Maxim August 13, 2013
"I find that a duck's opinion of me is greatly influenced by whether I have bread." Mitch...
Talebian Wisdom 10
"Even the cheapest misers can be generous with advise." Nassim Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and...
Issawi’s Laws
"Society is a mule, not a car. One cannot just press on the accelerator and go exactly where one wishes." From...
Maxim August 6, 2013
"Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable." Paul Valery Quoted in The End is Near and it's...
Talebian Wisdom 9
"The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist imagines an imbecile-proof one." Nassim...
