"Never think that lack of variability is stability.……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever."
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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 Confuse Quotes
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
— Michele Bachmann
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying…
— William Bernbach
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I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
— Brenda Blethyn
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
— Erma Bombeck
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
— Marlon Brando
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The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
— William S. Burroughs
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Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
— Hillary Clinton
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
— Laurie Anderson
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful…
— C.S. Lewis
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Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's…
— Sherman Glenn Finesilver
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