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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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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what…
— Albert Camus
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In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live…
— August Strindberg
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There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The…
— Tim Harford
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When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image…
— Jean Houston
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
— Bill Gates
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Art seduces, but does not exploit.
— Mason Cooley
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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
— Samuel Johnson
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
— Roland Barthes
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Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure)…
— Roland Barthes
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...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.
— Charlie Fletcher
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All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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