A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.
Quotes from Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
born 1960 Lebanon
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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Half of life—the interesting half of life—we don't even have a name for.
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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
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Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.
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The antifragility of the higher level may require the fragility—and sacrifice—of the lower one.
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The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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It is painful to think about ruthlessness as an engine of improvement.
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Randomness works well in search—sometimes better than humans.
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Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.
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If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese.
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