What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 1 Share Now -
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2 Share Now -
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 3 Share Now -
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 4 Share Now -
We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 5 Share Now -
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 6 Share Now -
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 7 Share Now -
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 8 Share Now -
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 9 Share Now -
