Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"It is painful to think about ruthlessness as an engine of improvement."

"A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point."

"I will use statistics and inductive methods to make aggressive bets, but I will not use them to manage my risks and exposure. ...ll the surviving traders I know seem to have done the same. ...hey make…"

"A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion."

"Unlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality."

"I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness ; classical thought is more robust than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate …"

"Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury."

"Statistics... is all based on... the steady augmentation of the confidence level... or an n times increase in sample size, we increase our knowledge by the square root on n. ...Where statistics ...fai…"