"People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too"

-- Martin Wolf

#Ignorance Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Swans Quotes

“In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.”
“Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward.”

Source : Blog post, March 06, 2008.
“I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.”
“People discover you at festivals. They come to see Coldplay or whoever, and then wander over and catch your act. Festivals make a lot of sense to me.”
“While Daddy liked to stick to the rules, Mummy liked to bend them.”
“Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.”
“I'm not in the business of harassing anybody”
“There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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