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
“Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
“rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno” Juvenal___Satires Black Swan” — Juvenal 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
“The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb… — Martin Wolf 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
“Taleb likes to invoke Popper: 'No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls… — Richard Thaler 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' was absolutely unbelievable. I had always dreamed of working with Darren Aronofsky, and Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Mila… — Ksenia Solo 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
'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting… — Robert Gottlieb 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
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 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
“A lesson I learned from this ancient [Greek] culture is the notion of megalopsychon (a term expressed in Aristotle’s ethics), a sense… — Kyle Eschenroeder 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
“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
The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that… — Ridley Scott 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
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
Being invited to score for 'Black Swan' was a real honour. To have my work form part of such an amazing film… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself… — James Wolcott 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
“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
I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hankering after a really… — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
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
“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
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