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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 could find David Beckham naked in a cardboard box on my doorstep and I would drop him off at the pound.
— Olivia Wilde
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If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.
— George Carlin
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Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work,…
— Neil Gaiman
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I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man…
— Hedy Lamarr
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Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn.…
— Joseph Heller
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Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the…
— Joseph Heller
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Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his…
— Kate DiCamillo
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I'll admit, I had fell in love with Kim. Around the same time she had fell in love with him. Well that's…
— Kanye West
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If Men Got Pregnant: They'd have to stop saying, I'm afraid I'll drop him.
— Nikhil Saluja
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