Black swan Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,”

— Brad Stone

“even a perceived impossibility, the existence of a black swan, might later be disproven.”

— Bobby Akart

“The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“A Black Swan event has three important characteristics. 1. The event is unexpected, or considered improbable, to the observer. 2. The event has a…

— Rich Jolly

“It’s a phrase, black swan,” she said. “Means a totally unexpected event with a big impact. But one that seems predictable afterwards, with the…

— Mick Herron

“at its core, the Black Swan is a modeling problem. The observer has deemed the event improbable based on their existing experiences which serve…

— Rich Jolly

“Taleb likes to invoke Popper: 'No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“...the young swans as big as their parents now, but still grey and it looks peculiar, like two different species swimming in a line,…

— Per Petterson

“The perfect swan made the ugliest duckling.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“A swan is beautiful, even if mocked by ugly ducks.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle writes that “From a scientific perspective, it was as if the researchers had traced the lineage of the world’s…

— Adam M. Grant

“This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is for ordinary…

— Arthur Golden