Nassim Nicholas Taleb citáty

„Obtiažnosť je to, čo prebúdza génia.“

“What I learned on my own I still remember”

“They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.”

“You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.”

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”

“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”

“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.”

“Things always become obvious after the fact”

“The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.”

“Remember that you are a Black Swan.”

“My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal”

“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius”

“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.”

“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.”

“The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds”

“Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.”

“Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category.”

“We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.”

“This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing …”

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”

“Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.”

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”

“When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.”

“The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference”

“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”

“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”

“The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.”

“People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up”

“The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.”

“A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see”