Nassim Nicholas Taleb Zitate

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„Sie sind nur dann reich, wenn Geld, das Sie ablehnen, besser schmeckt als Geld, das Sie annehmen.“

„Die Hälfte der Menschen lügt mit den Lippen; die andere Hälfte mit ihren Tränen.“

„Die Menschen trugen gewöhnliche Kleidung wochentags und am Sonntag formelle Kleidung. Heute ist es genau umgekehrt.“

„Sie haben ein echtes Leben, wenn Sie mit niemandem in einem Ihrer Bestrebungen konkurrieren.“

„Was Dummköpfe als „Zeitverschwendung“ bezeichnen, ist meistens die beste Investition.“

„Es ist die Schwierigkeit, die das Genie in uns wecken.“

“It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.”

“The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.”

“Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.”

“The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.”

“We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes —fragile otherwise.”

“While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.”

“Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.”

“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”

“Consider that the turkey's experience may have, rather than no value, a negative value.”

“Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later.”

“If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.”

“People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones.”

“Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.”

“Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.”

“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”