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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder QUOTES

61 " We ingest probiotics because we don’t eat enough “dirt” anymore. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

62 " The chief ethical rule is the following: Thou shalt not have antifragility at the expense of the fragility of others. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

63 " If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

64 " Rational flâneur (or just flâneur): Someone who, unlike a tourist, makes a decision opportunistically at every step to revise his schedule (or his destination) so he can imbibe things based on new information obtained. In research and entrepreneurship, being a flâneur is called “looking for optionality. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

65 " In an antique city-state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics—making things more symmetric. Banishment and exile, or, worse, ostracism were severe penalties—people did not move around voluntarily and considered uprooting a horrible calamity. In larger organisms like the mega holy nation-state, with a smaller role for face-to-face encounters, and social roots, shame ceases to fulfill its duty of disciplinarian. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

66 " Increasingly, data can only truly deliver via negativa–style knowledge—it can be effectively used to debunk, not confirm. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

67 " The excess energy released from overreaction to setbacks is what innovates! "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

68 " In a thick and captivating book, La rebellion française, the historian Jean Nicolas shows how the culture of rioting was extremely sophisticated—historically, it counts as the true French national sport. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

69 " Almost all people answer that the opposite of "fragile" is "robust", "resilient", "solid", or something of the sort. But the resilient, robust (and company) items that neither break nor improve, so you would not need to write anything on them--have you ever seen a package with "robust" in thick green letters stamped on it? Logically, the exact opposite of a "fragile" parcel would be a package on which one has written "please mishandle" or "please handle carelessly". "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

70 " So just as Stoicism is the domestication, not the elimination, of emotions, so is the barbell a domestication, not the elimination, of uncertainty. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

71 " Note another element of Switzerland: it is perhaps the most successful country in history, yet it has traditionally had a very low level of university education compared to the rest of the rich nations. Its system, even in banking during my days, was based on apprenticeship models, nearly vocational rather than the theoretical ones. In other words, on techne (crafts and know how), not episteme (book knowledge, know what). "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

72 " it is only when you don’t care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

73 " But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

74 " Complex systems are full of interdependencies—hard to detect—and nonlinear responses. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

75 " My dream—the solution—is that we would have a National Entrepreneur Day, with the following message: Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic growth of the planet and pulling others out of poverty. You are at the source of our antifragility. Our nation thanks you. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

76 " You can imagine how distraught I feel when I hear about the glorified heroism-free “middle class values,” which, thanks to globalization and the Internet, have spread to any place easily reached by British Air, enshrining the usual opiates of the deified classes: “hard work” for a bank or a tobacco company, diligent newspaper reading, obedience to most, but not all, traffic laws, captivity in some corporate structure, dependence on the opinion of a boss (with one’s job records filed in the personnel department), good legal compliance, reliance on stock market investments, tropical vacations, and a suburban life (under some mortgage) with a nice-looking dog and Saturday night wine tasting. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

77 " Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

78 " What should we control? As a rule, intervening to limit size (of companies, airports, or sources of pollution), concentration, and speed are beneficial in reducing Black Swan risks. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

79 " be sophisticated you need to accept that you are not so. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

80 " To understand the future, you do not need technoautistic jargon, obsession with “killer apps,” these sort of things. You just need the following: some respect for the past, some curiosity about the historical record, a hunger for the wisdom of the elders, and a grasp of the notion of “heuristics,” these often unwritten rules of thumb that are so determining of survival. In other words, you will be forced to give weight to things that have been around, things that have survived. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder