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We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do…

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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.…
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or…
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
...maximize the serendipity around you.
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be…
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…
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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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. — Warren Buffett
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris
When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we… — Wyndham Lewis
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which… — Norman Mailer
The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel. — Charles P. Kindleberger
I was named Margaret Yvonne. Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was… — Yvonne De Carlo
I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is… — Tom Selleck
Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around. — Calista Flockhart
No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error. — Unknown Author
I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was… — Kid Koala
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to… — Johann Bernoulli

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