Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork“Intelligence Consists in Ignoring the Irrelevant” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork“Academia is to knowledge” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkAd Hominem Attacks and Arguments – Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork“In a Box” – Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkEducation and Danger – Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkCharacter and Perseverance – Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNassim Nicholas Taleb on Doctors, Decisions and Perspective
"The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork“If you see fraud …” – Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkQuote About Work and Control by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNassim Nicholas Taleb on Substance, Depth, and Values
"Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb