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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a renowned author, scholar, and thinker whose unique perspective and profound insights have had a wide-reaching impact in fields such as finance, statistics, and philosophy. He is best known for his books 'The Black Swan' and 'Fooled by Randomness', which have explored the nature of uncertainty, risk, and probability theory.

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“While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.”

Practice Information Theory Property Incomplete Randomness Incomplete Information

Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

“Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.”

Doe Effort Information Harm

Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.”

Knows May Differences Taken Information Variables Guessing Predicting

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“For the robust, an error is information.”

Information Errors Robust

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Information is bad for knowledge.”

Knowledge Information Ignorance Limits

Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

“If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.”

Ifs Giving Belief Information Props

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“The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.”

Guy Technology Too Much Information Amount Internet Noise Marketplace Fallacy Too Much Information

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“When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.”

Ifs Opinion Information Evidence Weak Bases Difficulty Accurate Interpreting New Information

Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

“To bankrupt a fool, give him information.”

Giving Information Fool

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

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

Facts Light Mistake Information Determined

Book:Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Source: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets