Fooled By Randomness Quotes

#1. I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. It is the fear of death
24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black
that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.

Lewis H. Lapham

#4. You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

Ira Sachs

#5. I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over." If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends. The illusion that it's ended can reverse any good results that have come from it.

Jenny Hval

#6. If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.

Guy Kawasaki

#7. Maybe some people will not agree, but I like to eat sardines in the morning for breakfast. I think some people will have a hard time eating sardines in olive oil or pickled sardines for breakfast. I guess that is why I am still single.

David H. Murdock

#8. Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.

Edgar Cayce

#10. CIOs may not be the subject matter expert of all IT domains, but they should understand technology enough to ensure they have a keen sense of judgment on the priorities for IT investment.

Pearl Zhu

#11. He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Baltasar Gracian

#12. This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the "relation" between soul and body also applies to the relation between lover and lover, parent and child, member and community.

Kenny Smith

#13. I'm sure the president doesn't enjoy being called deporter-in-chief.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#14. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Laozi