WIST Quotations

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas -- The Black Swan, Part 2, ch. 10 “The Scandal of Prediction” (2007)

Dave — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:16:00 +0000

Don’t cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Part 2, ch. 10 “The Scandal of Prediction” (2007)
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Taleb, Nassim Nicholas -- Fooled by Randomness, Part 1, ch. 1 (2001)

Dave — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:55:12 +0000

Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
Fooled by Randomness, Part 1, ch. 1 (2001)
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