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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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I never stopped reading.
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I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
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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…
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I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're…
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Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped…
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Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
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In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The…
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Bridge to Terabithia was a book my mother read to my brother and me before we would go to sleep. Well written,…
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