WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/75949/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Nassim Nicholas Taleb</b></a></p><blockquote>I don’t particularly care about the usual. If you want to get an idea of a friend’s temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life. Can you assess the danger a criminal poses by examining only what he does on an <i>ordinary day?</i> Can we understand health without considering wild diseases and epidemics? Indeed the normal is often irrelevant.</blockquote><p><b>Nassim Nicholas Taleb</b> (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist<br><i>The Black Swan</i>, Introduction (2007)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/75949/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=exceptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exceptions</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=extraordinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extraordinary</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=normalcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>normalcy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=normality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>normality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=understanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>understanding</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=unusual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unusual</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=usual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usual</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=blackswan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackswan</span></a></p>