Sagest quote from Nicholas Taleb's twitter feed

[Tetro Kornbluth]

As I have made clear before, I'm not a fan of Nicholas Taleb, the writer of the Black Swan a book that revealed to the world that some times unpredictable events happen, and by surprise too. Basically he is basically the embodiment of sage if sage were a statistician with a history of working in the stock market and a fondness for libertarian talking points while disguising them with his particular brand of 'wisdom'. This is why this thread is in the Economics' board.

Anyway, at Oakvale's inspiration (Thank you Oakvale), I've been reading his twitter feed and I have a compiled a list of his most sage quotes. Which, I'm asking, do you think is the most sage?

Pick 4 from 17 (too many to choose from)

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Tough, Tough call. I must say.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

OH GOD.

This must be a write-in

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[Tetro Kornbluth]

This is... difficult. Such choice! Such range! Such variety!

Yes, people like Snowstalker are mere dabblers compared to Taleb. While Snow deals with some tired worn tropes that would have seen dated in a SWP meeting in 1991, Taleb invents all his own sage and on a wide and all-encompassing scope of topics, creating a near infinity of sage on almost all positions, including ones which contradict each other. Truly, Taleb is one of the master scholar of our time (and the writer of the most important social science book since The Wealth of Nations as according to one 'serious economics' blog I read once).