Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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FailureTimePeopleSafetyBuilding

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

Jessica Simpson

MyselfI AmMeHandsLookKind

There were some articles written about our marriage, mythologising it, making it into the greatest love story ever told.

Megan Mullally

LoveMarriageStoryGreatestSome

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

Robert Smith

LifeTimeMyselfControlBlackDown

I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it, because I would like to be able to join in fully. Not that I am a believer, but I would like to be.

Anita Brookner

LearningHealthI AmRegretThought

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

Anita Diament

BookStoryNeverClassicOverMonth

To me, wrestling is just as cool as it ever was.

Jeff Hardy

MeCoolWrestlingJustEver

I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

LoveMusicListeningVoiceSing

If I was to get nervous, then I'm wasting my energy.

Michelle Carter

EnergyNervousGetWastingThen

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Milan Kundera

TruthMeanPreachDiscoverMeans

I think you can appreciate different interpretations. Art is not a contest. I can even appreciate hearing someone play something in a way that I wouldn't.

Joshua Bell

ArtThinkAppreciateSomeoneYou

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Douglas Rushkoff

WorkGreatNetworkingSameSystem

The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.

Claude C. Hopkins

ScienceTimeAdvertisingHandsCome

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