Charlie Rose Talks to Nassim Taleb

has sold nearly 3 million copies worldwide and was described by of London as one of the 12 most influential books since World War II. ... Then you retreated and wrote , a new book of aphorisms. Which is your favorite?
The one that represents my ideas the most is "A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see." I have this idea I call "subtractive prophecy." To predict, you need to remove from the future what doesn't belong there because of fragility. And that makes prediction a completely different operation.

You argue that Ben Bernanke's points of reference [regarding the crisis] were wrong ...
Bernanke is completely fooled by the properties of the system. He didn't understand the risks of the system. He thought it was a great moderation when in fact we were sitting on dynamite. And of course this crisis took place and he still didn't figure out why.