Tag Archives: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

He Said That? 8/29/18

From Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960), Lebanese–American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010):

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending.

He Tweeted That? 5/1/18

From Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960), Lebanese–American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty:

The collective useable expertise of all the people at the WH correspondent’s dinner is lower than what you find in a single plumber, pastry chef, railroad engineer, or car mechanic with mufflers & exhaust systems subspecialty.#skininthegame pic.twitter.com/s86LasFoGc

He Said That? 10/15/17

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960), Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010):

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending