Nassim Nicholas Taleb Want Quotations

A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

An option hides where we don't want it to hide.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.