"If you want to annoy a poet, explain…" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry."
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219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site.
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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 Annoy Quotes
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one of 162 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
— Pietro Aretino
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People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.
— John Bonham
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It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make…
— Jo Brand
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
— Fred Allen
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The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly…
— E. W. Howe
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The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
— Stephen Sondheim
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I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the…
— Adolf Hitler
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Get out into the sunlight-out where everything is-with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those…
— Esther Hicks
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I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they…
— Robert Southey
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
— Kingsley Amis
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What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature],…
— Edward Condon
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Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.
— Josh James
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