Reading Logs :
This is my very first book of Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His anecdotes are quite interesting. Here I'm sharing few of my favourite lines from the book.
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From "The Bed of Procrustes" By Nassim Nicholas Taleb :
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing.*
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In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
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I suspect that they put Socrates to death because there is something terribly unattractive, alienating, and nonhuman in thinking with too much clarity.
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Modernity’s double punishment is to make us both age prematurely and live longer.
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An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant, the opposite.
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The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
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They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status—but rarely for your wisdom.
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Most of what they call humility is successfully disguised arrogance.
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If you want people to read a book, tell them it is overrated.
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You never win an argument until they attack your person.
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The most painful moments are not those we spend with uninteresting people; rather, they are those spent with uninteresting people trying hard to be interesting.
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Hatred is love with a typo somewhere in the computer code, correctable but very hard to find.
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Hatred is much harder to fake than love. You hear of fake love; never of fake hate.
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The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology.
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Usually, what we call a “good listener” is someone with skillfully polished indifference.
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People reserve standard compliments for those who do not threaten their pride; the others they often praise by calling “arrogant.”
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When she shouts that what you did was unforgivable, she has already started to forgive you.
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Most people fear being without audiovisual stimulation because they are too repetitive when they think and imagine things on their own.
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Some people are only funny when they try to be serious.
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