Skip to content

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

Another quote →

Topics

Journalism

More quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.

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

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

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

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

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

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)

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

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

All Nassim Nicholas Taleb quotes →

You may also like

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

Bill Moyers

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today.

Scott Pelley

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

Jean de La Fontaine Lettre à Simon de Troyes (1686)

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Tom Stoppard

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.