Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote About Addictions

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American mathematician, philosopher, and essayist, known for his work on uncertainty, risk assessment, and randomness.

A pointed quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb that contrasts physical dependency with social and economic habits.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American mathematician, philosopher, essayist, and former trader who gained worldwide recognition for his books on chance, randomness, and uncertainty, especially the "Incerto" series. He specializes in the role of extreme events and non-linearities in complex systems and critiques conventional approaches in economics and statistics.

Addiction and satisfaction quote graphic attributed to Aldous Huxley

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"Comfort is like a drug. Once you get used to it, it becomes addictive. Give a weak person constant stimulation, good food, and cheap entertainment, and they will abandon their ambitions. Dreams die in the comfort zone." Unbekannt

Quote by Bill Hicks on society and drugs highlighting caffeine and alcohol use in Western culture

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"If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in." Bill Hicks