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This is the tragedy of moderni...

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Many people keep deploring the...

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

But they never notice the foll...

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

I've debated many economists w...

I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Success is becoming in middle ...

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

To be completely cured of news...

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

An idea starts to be interesti...

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

In the United States large cor...

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

At no point in history have so...

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Much of the research into huma...

Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

It does not matter how frequen...

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

My major hobby is teasing peop...

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know....

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

The twentieth century was the ...

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

You exist if and only if you a...

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

We should reward people, not r...

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Never ask anyone for their opi...

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they haveЂ'or don't haveЂ'in their portfolio.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

An erudite is someone who disp...

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Suckers try to win arguments, ...

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Most so-called writers keep wr...

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Further, in writing, I feel co...

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....