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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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In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
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The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street,…
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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't…
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of…
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We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't…
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I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.
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Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?
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I was so small, I wasn't even going to go back out for my junior year. But my mom and dad sat…
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Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.
— Jonathan Kellerman
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I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late…
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He should be worried about playing the game, not innovating it. He thinks he's Brett Hull or something. You should remind him…
— Unknown Author
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The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.
— Dennis Rodman
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