Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
The casino is the only human venture I know where the probabilities are known, Gaussian (i.e., bell-curve), and almost computable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotes to Explore
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The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
Hank Johnson
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I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
Laura Kightlinger
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Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.
Gail Simmons
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.
Ferdinand Marcos
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I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.
Taylor Swift
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You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
Laura Anne Gilman
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The word vagina is a beautiful word, like all words that have v's and g's in them, like gavel, or evangelical. I love vaginas, and evangelicals. I fucking hate gavels though.8
Ze Frank
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The world as a whole is full of problems and difficulties and it is most important that every country which loves its Freedom and wants to maintain its Independence and sovereignty should work for peace and try to see that there is disarmament in the world which alone will lead to real peace.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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How did we become so intrigued by risk – and so worried about it at the same time?
Ben Carson
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To make a bank was a great plot of state;Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
Andrew Marvell