I say envious of people who are erudite. Like if someone knows Latin very well, I’m envious. If someone knows Sanskrit, I’m envious. And I discovered that early on. So I made money on Wall Street because I wanted to make money on Wall Street, but I didn’t think it was worth the effort.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author and probability researcher; Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at NYU
Lebanon · b. 1960
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Lebanese-American essayist, statistician and former derivatives trader. He is Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering and the author of the Incerto series, including The Black Swan and Antifragile.
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