Nassim Nicholas Taleb citáty a výroky
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Citáty v angličtine
“An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.”
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 3
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world (2009)
Zdroj: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 102
“Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.”
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 57
“Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.”
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 7
“Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.”
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 29
Zdroj: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 16
Zdroj: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 209
Zdroj: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 185
“When conflicted between two choices, take neither.”
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 71
“We learn the most from fools … yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.”
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 85
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 66
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 19
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 22
“It is painful to think about ruthlessness as an engine of improvement.”
Zdroj: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 75
“The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.”
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 20
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 41
“If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.”
Zdroj: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 63
Zdroj: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 8
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 31
Zdroj: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 94
Zdroj: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 176 (footnote)
“The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.”
Fooled by Randomness (2001)
“[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.”
Zdroj: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 116
