"I am happy everywhere except in places where……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal."
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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 Brooklyn Quotes
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I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
— Anthony Bourdain
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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little…
— David Byrne
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The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it?…
— Julian Casablancas
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I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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My net worth, that net works. Keep my shooters out in Brooklyn where the Nets work.
— Nicki Minaj
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Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He…
— Sydney Schanberg
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Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down
— Nas
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My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to…
— Herbie Mann
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I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.
— David Beckham
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We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.
— David Beckham
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