Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Misunderstood

• In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

  

  Halsey
  • Money
  • America
  • Guy

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Team
  • Winning

• Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Science
  • Energy
  • Problems

• It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Words
  • Me

• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Clothes

• Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Up
  • Work
  • Problem

• I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Live
  • Women
  • Funny

• Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Career
  • Film
  • Hollywood

• You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • New
  • Wave

• I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Time
  • First
  • Open

• Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • God
  • May

• On stage you’re free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you’d be arrested.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Free
  • You
  • Stage

• We are not the people we are in films. I am not an alcoholic. But I portray that. I can't bash up 20 guys at a time in real life. It's just that I do it well on-screen.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Music
  • Character
  • Light

• His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine - it was as the burning sun to my taper light - mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Time
  • Live
  • Light

• I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a culture things are out of balance, perverted, and inverted. Things that are ridiculous are worshipped, and things that are important are ridiculed. I think that's something worth thinking about.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Free
  • Technology
  • Options