"Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually ."
—
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's…
-
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
-
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
-
...maximize the serendipity around you.
-
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who…
-
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
-
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
-
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
-
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d…
-
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
-
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
-
But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the…
See all 219 quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb »
More Ambiguous Quotes
This quote is filed under Ambiguous Quotes,
one of 118 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
-
The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If…
— Nicolas Cage
-
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools…
— Carl Sagan
-
Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ...…
— Unknown Author
-
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original…
— G. H. Hardy
-
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of…
— Odilon Redon
-
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous…
— J. Michael Bishop
-
The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from…
— Gregg Easterbrook
-
In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad…
— Isabelle Huppert
-
The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you…
— Emily Blunt
-
What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are…
— Brian Eno
-
I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
— Keith Richards
See all 118 Ambiguous Quotes »