Nassim Nicholas Taleb Country Quotations

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.