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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 lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is rarely seen,…
— Robert Bridges
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I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street…
— James Joyce
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice…
— Paul Theroux
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The Lord, Har, Har, has ordained that the soul is to stay in her parents' home for only a few short days.
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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What does success require? short days, long nights, empty bank account, fake friends, two faced family members,faith in god, and faith in…
— Alexia
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Rather lose love than to move on never knowing what it feel like, Short days, long nights, By the phone, no call,…
— Wale
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks,…
— John McCrae
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Short days long nights, by the phone no calls, on my mind no remorse, because I've long gone without you, and you…
— Blaze Olamiday
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