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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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When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.
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I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm…
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I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life.
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Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise...Can you also…
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You might want to check with the IPCC Bureau. I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to…
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I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as…
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I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no…
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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.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick…
— Pema Chodron
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What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.
— James R. Clapper
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I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people…
— Gotye
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