Black Swan Events Quotes

#1. So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.

Richard Thaler

#2. I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#3. Imagination is the conception, but vision is the perceptual realization.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

Alan Cohen

#5. To launch into a sphere you need to discover the gifts needed for it

Sunday Adelaja

#6. The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

John Hench

#7. You cannot hate someone if you have never loved them.

Luke Gracias

#8. The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

Tom Robbins

#10. I am an outsider, a lesbian, a shikse. The Jewish community is not my community. But as a Jew
as a Jew in a Christian, anti-Semitic society
the Jewish community is, and will always remain, my community. Enemy and ally.

Irena Klepfisz

#11. Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there.

Beth Mowins