{"author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb","total_quotes":69,"quotes":[{"text":"In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["equality","equity","femininity","feminism","history","past"],"id":4678,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["beliefs","harm","plausibility"],"id":27115,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["decision-making","mistakes","outcomes","process"],"id":39402,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["academia","economics","herd-behavior"],"id":43073,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["internet-addiction","modern-life","modern-society","modernity","modernity-is-a-sickness","slavery","technology-addiction","technology-enchantment"],"id":50576,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["academia","academics","art","art-history","artists","arts","creativity","criticism","critics"],"id":56309,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["fact"],"id":56705,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["internet","internet-addiction","modernity-is-a-sickness","technology","technology-addiction","technology-enchantment"],"id":72574,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["pay","price","going "],"id":77693,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["free","options","really "],"id":82992,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":69,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}