"Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded."
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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 Blindfolded Quotes
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Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing…
— Steve Albini
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things.…
— Pete Maravich
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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50…
— Zig Ziglar
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According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came…
— Rand Paul
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True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight…
— Luke Wilson
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Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence…
— J I Packer
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To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
— David M. Shoup
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In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into…
— George Frederic Watts
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If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than…
— Bill Dickey
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All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.
— George Koltanowski
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They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and…
— Robertson Davies
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