The Black Swan Quotes

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. 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

#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. Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

Natalia Makarova

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned.

Ridley Scott

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. Let's go join the Black Swan!

Shannon Messenger

#10. Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.

James Wolcott

#11. Everything will be better in the morning. It always is.

Barbara Hershey

#12. What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.

Robert Gottlieb

#13. A soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

James A. Michener

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

Paolo Bacigalupi

#15. Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.

Vincent Cassel

#16. I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie 'Black Swan.'

Sherri Saum

#17. With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

James Wolcott

#18. I covered the scar with concealer every day because I wanted my body to be a flawless figurine, but this blemish would be with me forever.

Scarlet Risque

#19. 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

#20. Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'

Robert Gottlieb

#21. The best part is coming."
"What's the best part? You swallowing an entire cow whole?"
"No. That's the finale.

Stephenie Meyer

#22. If I was the pope, I'd've made Mrs. de Roo a saint. On the spot.

David Mitchell

#23. A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

Juvenal

#24. If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock!

Andrew Lo

#25. The only person standing in your way is you.

Vincent Cassel

#26. Fall down again, Bella?'
No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.

Stephenie Meyer

#27. Coal-black is better than another hue,
In that it scorns to bear another hue;
For all the water in the ocean
Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,
Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

William Shakespeare

#28. I think I'll call you Cygnus," Chelsea said.
"The swan?" I said. A bit precious, but it could have been worse.
She shook her head. "Black hole. Cygnus X-1.

Peter Watts

#29. Don't worry about the bloodsucker,' Jacob suggested, and his tone was smug. 'He's just jealous.'
'Of course I am.' Edward's voice was velvet again, under control, a musical murmur in the darkness.

Stephenie Meyer

#30. Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

Harvey Weinstein