"Scientists may be in the business of laughing……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future."
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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 Array Quotes
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
— Tony Campolo
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or…
— Judy Chicago
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Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure…
— Howard Gardner
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Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big…
— E. O. Wilson
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Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
— Stan Kelly-Bootle
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If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of…
— Sun Tzu
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Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that…
— Carl Jung
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With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water,…
— Wendell Berry
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the…
— Dean Koontz
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