Simple Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Simplicity is not so simple to attain.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Simple Simplicity
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What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution. — Ward Cunningham 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
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
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I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich. — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image