"Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China."
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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's…
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Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
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...maximize the serendipity around you.
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Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who…
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d…
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
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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 Cancellation Quotes
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one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I…
— Bono
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The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made…
— Henry Petroski
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After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists…
— Michio Kaku
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The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries,…
— John Ricard
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Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them…
— Steve McConnell
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Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's…
— Arthur Levitt Jr
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Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their…
— Judd Apatow
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If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the…
— Ann Coulter
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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.
— Noam Chomsky
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The lifespan of any show is to end in cancellation.
— Michael Cudlitz
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