"Things always become obvious after the fact" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Things always become obvious after the fact"
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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 Always Become Quotes
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always…
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which…
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You can always become better.
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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and…
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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the…
— Plato
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I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
— Tim O'Reilly
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If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.
— Bruce Fordyce
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You can always become the person you would have liked to be.
— Napoleon Hill
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What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.
— Lee Kuan Yew
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I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought,…
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little…
— Hermann Hesse
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So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something…
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