Antifragile By Nassim Quotes

#1. It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas of Mother Nature converged in my mind. It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Is the most antifragile place on the planet; it benefits from shocks that take place in the rest of the world.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. Six mirrors keep staring at one another
("Monday rue Christine")

Guillaume Apollinaire

#4. Recall that the fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. The process of discovery (or innovation, or technological progress) itself depends on antifragile tinkering, aggressive risk bearing rather than formal education.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

Helmut Newton

#8. Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. With few exceptions, those who dress outrageously are robust or even antifragile in reputation; those clean-shaven types who dress in suits and ties are fragile to information about them.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#10. He concluded that there was effectively no way for an accountant assigned to audit a giant Wall Street firm to figure out whether it was making money or losing money.

Michael Lewis

#11. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. Hey, we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them if they thought they were going to win the battle? If I didn't think we could win, I wouldn't be here. I'd stay home and get fat.

Ken Simonton

#13. I think Anna Tambour is criminally under-read.

Ben Peek

#14. Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#15. I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

Joaquin Andujar

#16. With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.

Ricky Gervais

#17. The mystery of the MAGIC BATHROOM will be revealed unto thee.

Peter Rogers

#18. You are more important than your problems.

Jose Ferrer

#19. Curiosity is antifragile, like an addiction, and is magnified by attempts to satisfy it - books have a secret mission and ability to multiply, as everyone who has wall-to-wall bookshelves knows well.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. My decision to come to Bell Telephone Laboratories immediately after obtaining my Ph.D. in 1936 was strongly influenced by the fact that my supervisor would be C. J. Davisson.

William Shockley

#21. We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.

James Comey

#22. It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#23. And we can almost always detect antifragility (and fragility) using a simple test of asymmetry: anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#24. Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#25. I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm gone ... and they'll never see anything like it ever again ... and they won't be able to forget me- ever.

Jim Morrison

#26. For the antifragile, shocks bring more benefits (equivalently, less harm) as their intensity increases (up to a point).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#27. Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#28. I was tired," she says. "I made a mistake."
"You're not tired anymore?"
She doesn't say anything. Then she says, "I am. But it's OK.

Emma Donoghue

#29. You Bet Your Life's sponsor, Chrysler, was convinced only a Commie would dare promote racial equality.

Kliph Nesteroff