Nassim Taleb Black Swan Quotes

#1. Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

Tim Minear

#2. Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#3. The narrative fallacy, Bezos explained, was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan to describe how humans are biologically inclined to turn complex realities into soothing but oversimplified stories.

Anonymous

#4. The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

Ronald Reagan

#5. You never beat the game...You go in, take what you need, get out. Never stay too long and never, never try to whip the game. Stay there too long and they figure you out, start chewing at the corners on you, know your betting. Then maybe two, three of them get together and whipsaw you.

Gary Paulsen

#6. Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. 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

#9. The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#10. Chocolate, something salty, and a box of hag rags gave

Debra Anastasia

#11. In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.

Paulo Freire

#12. If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.

Richard Bachman

#13. The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.

Andrew Bird

#14. My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Jimmy Carter

#15. that the Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, and retrospective explainability. Let

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#16. Black Swan Is Relative to Knowledge

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#17. And the Black Swan is what we leave out of simplification.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#18. As Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, writes, "Big data may mean more information, but it also means more false information." And even when the information is not false, the problem is "that the needle comes in an increasingly larger haystack.

Arianna Huffington

#19. Black Swan logic makes what you don't know far more relevant than what you do know.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. Remember that you are a Black Swan.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#21. With imagination, we can hold a universe inside our minds.

Alberto Villoldo

#22. I love you too, Stark.

P.C. Cast