Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”

“The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.”

“True, our knowledge does grow, but it is threatened by greater increases in confidence, which make our increase in knowledge at the same time an increase in confusion, ignorance, and conceit.”

“Things always become obvious after the fact”

“We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.”

“Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.”