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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Graduation

born 1960 Lebanon

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The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

Why do [people] confuse probability and expectation, that is, probability [vs.] probability times payoff? Mainly because much... schooling comes from examples in symmetric environments... the... bell curve... is entirely symmetric.

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.