"Fragility is the quality of things that are……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility."

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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…

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More Fragility Quotes

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The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a… — Czeslaw Milosz
Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's… — Sigmund Jahn
Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and… — Tim Winton
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same… — Jean Genet
I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world. — Unknown Author
Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and… — Unknown Author
Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy. — Peter Rollins
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent… — Sylvia Earle
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception. — Peter Drucker
A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management. — Richard Kinder
Your fragility is also your strength. — Pina Bausch
I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why… — Cecilia Bartoli

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