Fragility Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fragility Quality Volatility Vulnerable
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“I am used to facing, at the end of a conference lecture, the question “So what is the difference between robust and antifragile?” or the more unenlightened and even more irritating “Antifragile is resilient, no?” The reaction to my answer is usually “Ah,” with the look “Why didn’t you say that before?” (of course I had said that before). Even… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share
“anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at its roots… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
“It is the system and its fragility, not events, that must be studied—what” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“The essence of instability [in fundamental forces of nature] is that small fluctuations get amplified.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Two people who live their lives alone in rooms doing strange, gentle things can sometimes be together in the middle of a dangerous storm… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
“Those mornings were fragile things — like flowers blooming in the middle of a battlefield. She hadn’t realized then that the soil beneath them… — Maggie Sn Copy Share Image
The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to… — Nikki Sanderson Copy Share Image
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world. — Lillian Bassman Copy Share Image
“We, like lace, make up the very fabric of society, the tapestry of togetherness that consists of holes, but also of threads that tie… — Kayla Severson Copy Share Image
What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in with a gun or bomb. It leaves him breathless at times, how much faith people put in one another. So fragile, the social contract: we will all stand by the rules, move with care and gentleness, invest in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share
We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility. — David Christian Copy Share Image
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