"The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of th...

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb ~












Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health
More Nassim Nicholas Taleb quotes
"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
"The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm...
"When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.
"What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
"My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal