"For many people, commuting is the worst part……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering."
—
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's…
-
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
-
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
-
...maximize the serendipity around you.
-
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who…
-
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
-
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
-
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
-
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d…
-
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
-
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
-
But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the…
See all 219 quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb »
More Commuting Quotes
This quote is filed under Commuting Quotes,
one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimisitc about the potential for technology to make the world a better…
— Larry Page
-
I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two…
— Diane Cilento
-
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our…
— Brock Yates
-
An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could…
— Mark Lynas
-
I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my…
— Greg Walden
-
Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among…
— George Ryan
-
It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a…
— Ben Bernanke
-
[Commuting by bicycle is] an absolutely essential part of my day. It's mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and…
— James L. Jones
-
The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it…
— Joan Juliet Buck
-
Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
— Randeep Hooda
-
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy…
— Emily Oster
-
As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is…
— Tom Vanderbilt
See all 24 Commuting Quotes »