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Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on.…
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or…
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
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...maximize the serendipity around you.
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Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be…
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…
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But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an; it asks you to reflect and reason....When I read the…
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If someone ever asks you to do something for them, do it really bad so you never have to do it again.
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Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
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Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it…
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I’m not super-comfortable with it. I feel the less you project of yourself the more you can be believable as a character.…
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It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.
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If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.
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