Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.
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I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to write with candor about - mom and dad. Everything else is downhill from there.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
