Sunday, January 23, 2011

APHORISM: LIFE IS SHORT, ART LONG, OPPORTUNITY FLEETING, EXPERIENCE MISLEADING, JUDGEMENT DIFFICULT

BY
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB

In this profound & playful book
Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents his ideas about life
in the form of
aphorisms


He has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. Part literary essayist, part empiricist, part no-nonsense mathematical trader, he is currently the Deans Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst 

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APHORISIMS

Life is short-Art long-Opportunity fleeting-
Experience misleading, Judgment difficult.
 -Hippocrates-


By three methods we may learn Wisdom
First by reflection-which is noblest
Second by imitation-which is the easiest
Third by experience-which is the bitterest.
-Confucius-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius