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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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I’d rather protect a living, breathing person I can touch than some shogun above the clouds I’ll never see.
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I’d rather die than you not be by my side.
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I never play the victim, I’d rather be a stalker.
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Raise your hand if you’ve spent nights crying yourself to sleep, raise your hand if you’ve felt as if you’d rather hide…
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I`ve always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I`d rather be the Wicked Witch.
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I quickly said that because of my loyalty to Star Trek, and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to…
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat,
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I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am…
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We are so lucky to be surrounded by such open minded, well traveled individuals. Everyone has a different story and journey that…
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