Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
-
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
-
Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
-
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
-
I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
-
I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
-
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
-
If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
-
Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.
-
I definitely would not do a reality show.
-
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
-
I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
-
As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
-
They hate whom they fear.
-
I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
-
I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
-
I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
-
I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.
-
I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.
-
It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.
-
I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.
-
Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.
-
Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
