"Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Effort Quotes #Information Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
“One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.”
“49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.”
“The black socks [on me at Olympics in 1968] emphasized the fact that we had so many Blacks and people of color here in the United States, the greatest country in the world, that was running around in poverty every day, so we wanted to illustrate the fact that these individuals did not have shoes and they had to walk 20 miles to and from school every day with no shoes in the greatest country in the world.”

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“Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.”
“Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.”
“Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.”
“I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.”

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