“And the Black Swan is what we leave out of simplification.” — 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
“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
“[...] 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
“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
“even a perceived impossibility, the existence of a black swan, might later be disproven.” — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'. — Jennifer Armentrout 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
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
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
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
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 trumpeter is beautiful to behold, graceful and elegant, just like our Ms. Swan. But if you disturb a trumpeter, trespass through… — Suzanne Selfors 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
“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
“A Black Swan event has three important characteristics. 1. The event is unexpected, or considered improbable, to the observer. 2. The event… — Rich Jolly 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
“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
“And when adulthood fails you, you can still summon the memory of the black swan on the pond of your childhood, the… — Barbara Ras Copy Share Image
“Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of the earth. The speck of dust represents… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
“(Amongst those thus enslaved was Lady Johanna Swann, a fifteen-year-old niece of the Lord of Stonehelm. When her infamously niggardly uncle refused… — George R.R. Martin 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
“Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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
Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the… — Harvey Weinstein 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
“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
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