Nassim Nicholas Taleb Information Quotations

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

Information is bad for knowledge.

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

For the robust, an error is information.