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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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The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out…
— Henry Hamilton Beamish
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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…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The…
— Diana Dors
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Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after…
— Douglas Alexander
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries…
— Karen Armstrong
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America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
— Ringo Starr
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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Italy is like that big country, or no, Europe is that big country and then you have like Britain in there and…
— Jersey Shore
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It's like Britain, only with buttons.
— Unknown Author
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