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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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All you nerds out there (me included) - don't always rely on stats for the perfect answer.
— Bobby Bragan
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The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or…
— Teresa Palmer
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I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned
— Kristen Bell
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
— Kaley Cuoco
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When I was a boy I was called a nerd all the time — because I didn’t like sports, I loved to…
— Wil Wheaton
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I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.
— Alessandra Torresani
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Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
— Jonathan Lethem
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Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws…
— Dave Barry
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A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.
— Roseanne Barr
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Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting…
— Phil Robertson
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In fact, the world needs more nerds.
— Ben Bernanke
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In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
— Jonathan Krohn
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