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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 THE UNIVERSAL AND THE PARTICULAR
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What I learned on my own I still remember.
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Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations), finer minds detect differences.
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To grasp the difference between Universal and Particular, consider that some dress better to impress a single person than an entire crowd.
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We unwittingly amplify commonalities with friends, dissimilarities with strangers, and contrasts with enemies.
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Many are so unoriginal they study history to find mistakes to repeat.
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There is nothing deemed harmful (in general) that cannot be beneficial in some particular instances, and nothing deemed beneficial that cannot harm you in some circumstances. The more complex the system, the weaker the notion of Universal.
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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither.
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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
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True love is the complete victory of the particular over the general, and the unconditional over the conditional.
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Unless we manipulate our surroundings, we have as little control over what and whom we think about as we do over the muscles of our hearts.
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Corollary to Moore’s Law: every ten years, collective wisdom degrades by half.
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Never rid anyone of an illusion unless you can replace it in his mind with another illusion. (But don’t work too hard on it; the replacement illusion does not even have to be more convincing than the initial one.)
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The tragedy is that much of what you think is random is in your control and, what’s worse, the opposite.
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The fool views himself more unique, and others more generic; the wise views himself more generic and others more unique.
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What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes (literally) buried.
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The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
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Medieval man was a cog in a wheel he did not understand; modern man is a cog in a complicated system he thinks he understands.
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The calamity of the information age is that the toxicity of data increases much faster than its benefits.
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The role of the media is best seen in the journey from Cato the Elder to a modern politician. Do some extrapolation if you want to be scared.
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Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.
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Most info-web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from people’s heads.
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Finer men tolerate others’ small inconsistencies though not the large ones; the weak tolerate others’ large inconsistencies though not small ones.
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Randomness is indistinguishable from complicated, undetected, and undetectable order; but order itself is indistinguishable from artful randomness.
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