Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes.

1. "The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary."
- Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2. "Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse"
- Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3. "A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking."
- Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4. "Things always become obvious after the fact"
- Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

5. "The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free"
- Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

6. "People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up"
- Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

7. "Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense"
- Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

8. "They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)"
- Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

9. "My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism"
- Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

10. "As a matter of fact, your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive effect", then on their intensity when they hit. In other words, good news is good news first. How good matters rather little. So to have a pleasant life you should spread those small effects across time as evenly as possible. Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news. The same is property in reverse applies to our unhappiness. It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period, rather than have it spread out over a long time."
- Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb