The Bed of Procrustes

A teasing, thought-provoking book . . . its title is taken from the Greek myth in which Procrustes fitted his guests to a bed - cutting to size those too tall and stretching those too short. Taleb's crystalline nuggets of thought stand alone like esoteric poems

Financial Times

Happily provocative . . . blistering . . . his observations concern superiority, wealth, suckerdom, academia, modernity, technology and the all-purpose, ignorant "they" . . . very quotable

The New York Times

A master philosopher

The Times

The aphorism is Taleb to a tee. It showcases his wit and learning, and provides ways to fillet his enemies . . . Like Twain and Wilde before him, Taleb eats paradoxes for breakfast

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