Rohit

“You do not want to win an argument. You want to win.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“Start by being nice to every person you meet. But if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George
W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder