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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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To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like…
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Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .
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I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find…
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Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them,…
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If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in,…
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I think horror movies are still - this can be said of all movies - but being with a group of people…
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It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
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