"Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness."

— 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…
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…

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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