Nassim Nicholas Taleb Want Quotations

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.