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Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb _ Antifragile: Things That Gain
How do you innovate? First, try to get in trouble. I mean serious, but not terminal, trouble. I hold-it is beyond speculation, rather a conviction-that innovation and sophistication spark from initial situations of necessity, in ways that go far beyond the satisfaction of such necessity {from the unintended side effects of, say, an initial invention or attempt at invention}."
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb _ The Black Swan: The Impact of
The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library {containing thirty thousand books}, and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with "Wow! Signore, professore dottore Eco, what a library you have ! How many of these books have you read?" and the others - a very small minority - who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you don't know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menancingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.
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