More from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 94
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 95An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 3
More about courage
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
