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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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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
— Ansel Adams
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I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I…
— John Banville
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The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down…
— Big Boi
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Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
— Jeff Bridges
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I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click,…
— Tim Burton
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I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.
— Nick Clegg
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Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing…
— Charley Reese
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In the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.
— Unknown Author
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The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.
— Ben Katchor
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The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still,…
— Amby Burfoot
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These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in…
— Cesar Chavez
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If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
— John Aniston
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