I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
When I saw the movie 'Black Swan,' I liked the darker aspect of it, the more dramatics, and that's what I like… — Kaetlyn Osmond Copy Share Image
I launched Ballet Beautiful not long after finishing at Columbia and met Natalie Portman shortly after. We began training and preparing her… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just… — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
“Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The scientific method asserts that one cannot prove a hypothesis, only disprove it. Seeing more white swans may strengthen the hypothesis, but… — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The narrative fallacy, Bezos explained, was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan to describe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries, Crown Business, September 12, 2011… — Mario E. Moreira Copy Share Image
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“at its core, the Black Swan is a modeling problem. The observer has deemed the event improbable based on their existing experiences… — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
“[...] what you see is likely to be less Black Swannish than what you do not see.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t the Black Swan’s puppet anymore. She was broken. All she had left was trust.” — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
I think everyone has a little black swan in them, it's just a matter of when you let it out. — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
“The strategy for the discoverers and entrepreneurs is to rely less on top-down planning and focus on maximum tinkering and recognizing opportunities… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Kant distinguished between two types of truths: (1) analytic propositions, which derive from logic and “reason itself” rather than from observing the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can… — Patrick M. Byrne Copy Share Image
“The Neverseen may think themselves brilliant schemers, full of plans no one would ever suspect. But when it came to game-changing secrets,… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
I played soccer and baseball, and that's all. But what if I had been the best at like, ballet? And I didn't… — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
“rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno” Juvenal___Satires Black Swan” — Juvenal Copy Share Image
