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"Contra the prevailing belief, "success" isn't being on top of a hierarchy, it is standing outside all hierarchies."
About Nassim Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.
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Additional quotes by Nassim Taleb
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler. The less you trust a ruler's reliability (in probability called the prior), the more information you are getting about the ruler and the less about the table.
I believe that forcing researchers to eat their own cooking whenever possible solves a serious problem in science.
The Nation-state: apartheid without political incorrectness.